OUR SILVER ANNIVERSARY
This month, the law firm of turned 25 years old! How can that be? In January of 1991, we opened in a 3-room office on Roosevelt Road in the Chicago suburb of Wheaton, Illinois. We didn't have a secretary, so we...
Creative And Strategic Legal Guidance
FRANCHISORS: IT IS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN – THE FDD UPDATE.
If your franchise company has a fiscal year end of December 31, early January is the time to begin the process of updating the Franchise Disclosure Document as required by the Federal Trade Commission's FTC Rule. The FTC Rule requires that all franchisors update...
A Completely Different Result: Franchisor Found NOT to be Employer of its Franchisee’s Employees.
In a recent decision by the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Boards ("NLRB"), there was a completely different result from the McDonald's matter discussed in our previous article. In the McDonald's matter, the General Counsel of the NLRB sought to have...
What Do You Mean They Are OUR Employees?
Most of us realize that the minimum wage is not a "living wage." Workers who earn minimum wage, even if they work full-time, struggle to support themselves, much less their families. It is this realization that prompts many of us to want to see the federal minimum...
Disclosure Guidelines Under the New Multi-Unit Commentary – Subfranchisors Should Prepare for 2015
On September 16, 2014, the Franchise and Business Opportunity Project Group of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) issued a Multi-Unit Commentary to provide guidance in addressing certain disclosure requirements in 3 different types of...
Disclosure Guidelines Under the New Multi-Unit Commentary – Franchisors Should Prepare for 2015
On September 16, 2014, the Franchise and Business Opportunity Project Group of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) issued a Multi-Unit Commentary to provide guidance in addressing certain disclosure requirements in 3 different types of...