Bio
Professor Hannah Stitt is the founder of Tectonic Law PC, a San Francisco-based intellectual property litigation firm. Professor Stitt has worked on trademark disputes throughout her career, and her experience includes clearance and prosecution of trademarks a the state level.
In addition to her litigation practice, Professor Stitt has been deeply engaged in the development of accountability frameworks for legal practice in frontier industries, such as cannabis and crypto, that are shaped by rapid social and regulatory change. Between 2018 and 2022, Professor Stitt served on the Ethics Committee for the International Cannabis Bar Association. She contributed significantly to the INCBA’s proposed model rules of professional conduct for attorneys serving clients in regulated cannabis markets, and pushed the committee to develop a model evidentiary rule to protect attorney work product. Her advice and counsel has shaped the market.
Professor Stitt has experience in clinical instruction through her work at the Prisoner Advocacy Network (a project of the SF Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild) (now shuttered). As a Lead Attorney and Co-Director of PAN, Professor Stitt worked closely with legal workers and law students to assist California prisoners to navigate the intricacies of the civil administrative legal system in order to meet their basic needs and human rights. She first became interested in the conditions of confinement for California prisoners as a law student through UC Law SF Abolition & Prisoner Outreach.
She earned her J.D. from UC College of the Law, San Francisco in 2015, where she now returns as a professor. Prior to founding Tectonic Law PC, Professor Stitt worked a various business focused litigation firms in San Francisco, CA.