About Gordon K. Sattro
Attorney by profession. Adventurer by nature.
Gordon K. Sattro is a San Diego attorney, cannabis mergers and acquisitions advisor, and expert witness who has spent his life building things worth building: a law practice, a nonprofit, a paddle community on Mission Bay, and a trail record that circles the globe.
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In my own words
I am an attorney, but that word alone has never told the whole story. By profession I litigate, negotiate, and advise. By nature I am an explorer, someone who feels most alive with a pack on my back, a paddle in hand, or a passport stamp still drying. Over the years I have learned a simple truth: whether you are standing in a courtroom or on a ridgeline at dawn, it is the people you meet and the purpose you serve that make the journey worth it.
I am the founding and managing partner of Sattro Law Group, P.C., a California firm with offices in San Diego, Newport Beach, and Beverly Hills. I also serve as Managing Director of Nationwide M&A at Green Life Business Group, guiding cannabis business sales across 23 states, and I am regularly retained as an expert witness on cannabis business and real property valuation. That is the professional shorthand. What follows is the rest of it.
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The work
Three connected practices, one throughline: solving hard problems for people who have a lot riding on the outcome.
Sattro Law Group, P.C.
01 / Law
I represent clients in personal injury, entertainment, cannabis, and business disputes, along with the transactional work that keeps companies moving. Litigation is where I cut my teeth, and I still love the strategy of it.
02 / M&A
As Managing Director of Nationwide M&A at Green Life Business Group, I advise buyers and sellers on cannabis business transactions across 23 states, from first conversation to signed close.
03 / Expert
Counsel across the country retain me to testify on cannabis business valuation and real property valuation, translating messy financial reality into something a judge and jury can weigh.
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Building community, giving back
Community is not a buzzword to me. It is the point. I founded Paddle Boarding SD, a Mission Bay group that gathers for sunset paddles and has grown into a genuine community, and Hail to the Trail, a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit that connects people through hiking with purpose.
I lead hikes for Make-A-Wish San Diego, help organize beach cleanups with the Surfrider Foundation, and put my energy into turning empathy into action. The reward is never complicated. It is watching a stranger become a friend by mile three, and knowing you helped build the room they walked into.
Stage and screen
Long before the courtroom, there was the stage. I studied six years of improv including at The Groundlings in Los Angeles, the improv and sketch school behind a lot of the people you have watched on Saturday nights, and I have worked in and around entertainment since the early 2000s.
That world never really left. I represent entertainment clients through Sattro Law Group, from actors and directors to writers, producers, and musicians, and I have spent time in front of the camera as well as behind it. My screen credits include a producing turn on Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story, an appearance on Lifetime's Little Women: LA, and a guest spot on the Italian program Non è l'Arena as counsel for actor Jimmy Bennett. The improv training is the throughline. It taught me to listen, stay loose under pressure, and find the human moment in a tense room, whether that room is a writers' table, a courtroom, or a keynote stage.
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The trail record
If you want to know me, follow me into the wild. A few of the trails and summits that have humbled and shaped me.
Grand Canyon R2R2R
Arizona, USA
Mount Fuji
Honshu, Japan
Laugavegur Trek
Iceland
Angels Landing
Zion, UT, USA
Cactus to Clouds
Palm Springs, CA, USA
Mount Whitney
Sierra Nevada, CA, USA
Half Dome
Yosemite, CA, USA
Fimmvorduhals Trek
Zion, UT, USA
Kalalau Trail
Kauai, HI, USA
Iceland
Mount Batur
Bali, Indonesia
The Subway
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Food, culture, and travel
I have an appetite for food and culture in the Anthony Bourdain sense of the phrase. To me a meal is never just sustenance. It is story, identity, and connection.
Wherever a trail or a case takes me, I go looking for the local table and the local story: the market stall over the tourist menu, the plastic stool over the white tablecloth. Every plate and every conversation widens the frame a little. That same curiosity feeds my writing, including two projects close to my heart, Trails for the Lost and The Hiker's Code, where the trail and the table keep showing up as teachers.
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Peaks, paddles, and purpose
If there is one line that guides me, it is the one I built my whole brand around: turning peaks, paddles, and purpose into possibility.
Stay curious. Stay kind. Treat the person at the trailhead and the person across the negotiating table with the same respect. Do good work, especially when no one is watching, and leave every team, every community, and every campsite a little better than you found it. That, in a nutshell, is the philosophy. Everything else is just details and elevation gain.
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