FRANCHISE LAW WITH ZING
The 2011-2012 U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings are complete and Plave Koch has earned impressive placement. According to the publisher, “the rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that included thousands of clients, highly skilled...
On March 12, 2012 we submitted a letter to Lois Greisman, Associate Director for Marketing Practices at the Federal Trade Commission, requesting that the FTC revise its guidance on disclosure of financial performance representations. Our letter pointed out that some state regulators have used the FTC’s existing guidance as authority for sharply narrowing the scope of permissible disclosures regarding company-owned […]
If you attended the Technology Summit at this year’s IFA Convention, you heard Facebook announce that IFA members would be given access to FB’s new parent/child tool to control how franchisees use the brand on Facebook. The news was the culmination of work that Ken Colburn of The Data Doctors and Lee Plave started in […]
On December 7th, the US Court of Appeals for 9th Circuit handed down an opinion in Red Lion Hotels Franchising, Inc. v. MAK, LLC, 2011 WL 6061516 (9th Cir., Dec. 7, 2011). Of particular note is the court’s conclusion that the “franchisee bill of rights” under the Washington Franchise Investment Protection Act (FIPA) applies if […]
Who’s Who Legal of London has named our firm as one of the global leaders in franchise law in its publication The International Who’s Who of Franchise Lawyers 2011. We are especially pleased that seven of our partners are included in the 2011 edition. The editors...
Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Lee J. Plave as the “Washington, DC Best Lawyers Franchise Lawyer of the Year” for 2011. After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is...
Leslie Curran was named to serve as the President of NAWBO Greater D.C. (See NAWBO-DC website.)
The current Chinese Franchise Regulations, which took effect on May 1, 2007, require franchisors to complete a regulatory filing and to provide disclosure before they may offer franchises in the PRC. Franchisors also must satisfy other requirements, such as the infamous “2+1 rule” (requiring a franchisor to have two company-owned units operating for at least […]
Domino’s Pizza is not vicariously liable for an automobile accident caused by a pizza deliveryman, the Maine Supreme Court has ruled. A pizza deliveryman was in a car accident with a man on a motorcycle. The motorcyclist sued the pizza store as well as Domino’s Pizza, which had franchised the store. He claimed that Domino’s […]
We wanted to pass along the attached decision from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday involving La Quinta Inns and a former franchisee that we thought might be of interest to you. The Sixth Circuit reached some helpful conclusions regarding enforcing system change in hotel systems, enforcing liquidated damages in hotel franchise agreements, and […]
