About the Firm

Candace L. Moon, Esq

Founder

Since 2009, Candace L. Moon, Esq. has actively served over 450 craft beer breweries, including breweries-in-planning, nationwide. She discovered the need for specialized craft beer counsel while working as a bartender at world-famous Hamilton’s while attending law school in San Diego, California. Through her conversations with brewers, she identified that there were no attorneys catering to the legally complicated industry. As a result, Candace formed The Craft Beer Attorney, APC.

Candace specializes in business entity formation, alcoholic beverage law, contract review, trademark law, and general counsel. She is in demand as a guest speaker for brewers’ guild and association meetings and craft beer conferences nationwide on matters such as distribution laws and trademarks to ensure clients and breweries-in-planning are complying with industry standards and regulations. She has been featured in newspapers, magazines, television segments, and online throughout her remarkable career.

Candace received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia and her juris doctorate from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California. She sat on the Board of Directors for Pink Boots Society and San Diego Brewers Guild. She is a member of several esteemed professional associations, including the Brewers Association and California Craft Brewers Association, and has received multiple awards and accolades for her work in the industry.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Pink Boots Society, 2016 – 2018
San Diego Brewers Guild, 2017 – 2019

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

Brewers Association, Member, 2009 – Present
California Craft Brewers Association, Allied Member
American Bar Association, Member, 2008 – Present
State Bar of California, Member, 2008 – Present
San Diego County Bar Association, Member, 2008 –Present
San Diego Brewers Guild, Affiliated Member, 2010 –Present

HONORS AND AWARDS

San Diego County Top Attorney Award – Intellectual Property (The Daily Transcript), 2014
Best of the Bar – Intellectual Property Law (San Diego Business Journal), 2014
Best of the Bar – Intellectual Property Law (San Diego Business Journal), 2015
Finalist for San Diego Business Journal’s Most Admired CEO award, 2016
Finalist for San Diego Magazine Women of the Year, 2016
Finalist for San Diego Business Journal’s Women of the Year, 2017
California Super Lawyer, Rising Star, 2018

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Diane Medina, Esq.

Senior Attorney

With a background in criminal law and DUI defense, Diane has extensive trial and administrative hearing experience which adds to the arsenal of talent here at Craft Beer Attorney. During her legal studies at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, she developed an interest in Intellectual Property and graduated with a Certificate in the Center for Law, Technology & Communications.

The primary focus of her practice is contract negotiations, trademark filings and counseling clients on several different areas of law which include everything from compliance to labor practices. A native of Bakersfield, California, Diane enjoys the slow beach town vibe San Diego has to offer. She’s a professed cinephile and binges several of the latest tv shows so if you need new show recommendations, don’t hesitate to ask. You can catch her drinking a hazy IPA while vying for bragging rights at any local trivia bar.

Tanya Corriveau

Operations Ninja

Since 2014, Tanya has worked with Candace and in the alcohol manufacturing industry. Tanya is the Operations Ninja (Coordinator) who handles everything from running trademark clearances, filing trademarks, TTB, and ABC licenses, as well as managing events, the website and social media outlets. Tanya provides The Craft Beer Attorney, as well as its clients, with the best support and operations coordination available. Her expertise in project management, organization and strategy, married with her 16 plus years of experience in IT, make her an invaluable asset to her clients and their team.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

San Diego Brewers Guild, 2024-2025 term
Pink Boots Society, 2019

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Mesa College – Fermentation Program, 2024

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TIM DENHAM

Law Clerk

Tim joined the Craft Beer Attorney during his final year of law school at the Ventura Colleges of Law.

Tim brings a passion for craft beer and years of experience in the craft beer industry working as a beertender to pay his way through school. In his time at the Colleges of Law, Tim earned a spot on the Dean’s Honor List in each of his three years and was also the recipient of the Wiley W. Manuel Certificate for pro Bono Legal Services for his time spent volunteering his time with the Legal Aid Society of San Diego.

Shannon Lynette

Licensing

Shannon started her career within the Hospitality realm at the age of 15 at a local Albuquerque Brewpub. Shirking her responsibility of polishing the copper host stand in favor of asking the brewer a million questions about beer styles and processes (and convincing the servers to tip her out in growlers in lieu of cash), she kindled a lifelong adulation of all things Craft Beer (and degeneracy).

Attending Northern Arizona University to study Political Science and International Studies, she filled the time between classes cleaning friends’ bathrooms in exchange for six packs and growlers of local Craft Beer. After school she continued to bartend, bringing her adulation of Craft Beer to an assortment of Blue-Collar Workers, Bikers, and Cowboys throughout Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. She landed in San Diego at AleSmith Brewing Company in 2013 and worked in a variety of positions behind the bar, doing weekend cellar work, brewery tours, and helping develop a Beer Education Training program. She left AleSmith in early 2016 to become the Hospitality Manager, and later part owner, of Burning Beard Brewing Company.

In August of 2021, her collegiate studies and hospitality experience coalesced when she joined the Craft Beer Attorney firm as a Licensing and Compliance Specialist. When not navigating the Licensing and Compliance realm or overwhelming hapless strangers with fun facts about beer, she enjoys watching Rugby, collecting Vinyl, reading through the stack of books she purchased as ‘a little treat’, and eating burritos outside of live music venues.

Jenn greif

Office Manager

Jenn comes from an extensive hospitality background including management, advertising and sales. While she is a Bay Area native and graduated from The Academy of Art University, she has lived in San Diego for years and has enjoyed watching the Craft Beer Industry evolve. She loves exploring local breweries, attending soccer games, traveling and watching and helping our clients’ dreams come true!

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