Greg Troutman Industry Bio
I have been a Kentucky-based business/commercial law attorney for 27 years.
In mid-2013, I met a guy named Troy LeBlanc who sought
my counsel about opening a vape shop.
That started my journey as a vape lawyer - - and that one shop
is now nine shops plus a national/international distributorship.
In mid-2015, the State of Indiana decided it would create an in-state monopoly for e-liquids.
I served as lead counsel in the legal challenge to that monopoly. We prevailed in our challenge
after an 18 month battle. This was the first legal challenge to a state vaping regulation in the country,
and the first successful one. After defeating the existing regulations,
the Indiana legislators solicited the help of the legal team to help craft a new regulatory scheme which was legal.
I was one of the three lawyers involved in that process along with leaders from the Indiana Smoke Free Association.
Since 2016, I have been a frequent advocacy speaker at various vape industry trade shows, where the focus of my presentation is often on the legal and political aspects of the industry.
I have also written a number of columns for industry trade publications concerning these legal and political issues.
Over the past 6 1/2 years, I have developed an industry expertise and have provided testimony at public hearings, such as the Village of Heartland, Wisconsin hearing in April 2017 and before various city councils and state legislatures.
I have also developed an expertise in defending vape industry retailers against liability claims resulting from battery failure injuries. I have successfully defended several such cases, and consulted in a number of others across the country. The battery safety warning sheet which I created is presently used in a number of vape shops across the country.
In 2018, I became a part of a national lobbying group whose intention is to obtain passage of federal legislation which sensibly regulates the vaping industry. I am the key author of proposed federal legislation which is awaiting roll-out in Congress. The recent uproar over lung illnesses and resulting flavor bans has led me to work with retailers and policy makers to search for regulatory alternatives to outright flavor bans.
The policies which I am advocating in the various states are in light with the basic construct
of the proposed federal legislation.
I am also presenting working with the Montana Smoke Free Association
and its members to challenge the emergency flavor ban enacted in Montana,
and am consulting with the legal team involved in the Right to be Smokefree Coalition
litigation in both Washington, DC and Maryland.
I have been a Kentucky-based business/commercial law attorney for 27 years.
In mid-2013, I met a guy named Troy LeBlanc who sought
my counsel about opening a vape shop.
That started my journey as a vape lawyer - - and that one shop
is now nine shops plus a national/international distributorship.
In mid-2015, the State of Indiana decided it would create an in-state monopoly for e-liquids.
I served as lead counsel in the legal challenge to that monopoly. We prevailed in our challenge
after an 18 month battle. This was the first legal challenge to a state vaping regulation in the country,
and the first successful one. After defeating the existing regulations,
the Indiana legislators solicited the help of the legal team to help craft a new regulatory scheme which was legal.
I was one of the three lawyers involved in that process along with leaders from the Indiana Smoke Free Association.
Since 2016, I have been a frequent advocacy speaker at various vape industry trade shows, where the focus of my presentation is often on the legal and political aspects of the industry.
I have also written a number of columns for industry trade publications concerning these legal and political issues.
Over the past 6 1/2 years, I have developed an industry expertise and have provided testimony at public hearings, such as the Village of Heartland, Wisconsin hearing in April 2017 and before various city councils and state legislatures.
I have also developed an expertise in defending vape industry retailers against liability claims resulting from battery failure injuries. I have successfully defended several such cases, and consulted in a number of others across the country. The battery safety warning sheet which I created is presently used in a number of vape shops across the country.
In 2018, I became a part of a national lobbying group whose intention is to obtain passage of federal legislation which sensibly regulates the vaping industry. I am the key author of proposed federal legislation which is awaiting roll-out in Congress. The recent uproar over lung illnesses and resulting flavor bans has led me to work with retailers and policy makers to search for regulatory alternatives to outright flavor bans.
The policies which I am advocating in the various states are in light with the basic construct
of the proposed federal legislation.
I am also presenting working with the Montana Smoke Free Association
and its members to challenge the emergency flavor ban enacted in Montana,
and am consulting with the legal team involved in the Right to be Smokefree Coalition
litigation in both Washington, DC and Maryland.