Starting on July 1, 2021. the NCAA permitted student-athletes throughout the country to profit from their name, image, and likeness (“NIL”). This decision marks a major shift from the NCAA’s
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Popular Franchise Funding Source (EB-5 Program) Rocked by Two Major Developments
With Ali Brodie
EB-5 Investments are a popular way of raising capital for franchise expansion. So it came as a bit of a shock last week the EB-5 Program was
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Franchise Agreements in Bankruptcy Cases and Business Restructurings
Please join Elizabeth Rose of Caiola & Rose LLC, Jason Binford of the Texas Office of the Attorney General, and me, John Gotaskie, on July 14th for a 90 minute
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Pennsylvania Edges Closer to Normalcy
Big News from the Office of Pennsylvania
Governor Wolf today! While there does not yet seem to be an Order, the Governor’s Office issued a press release today outlining significant
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Women Returning to the Workforce: Tips for New Franchisees
The idea for this blog comes from Sahara Pynes. Sahara is a member of our Labor and Employment team and presented her own Tips for New Entrepreneurs in our
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Winter of Despair followed by . . . a Spring of Hope?
Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities famously opens with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was
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Unintended Consequences? The Employment Battle Threatens Franchising
The one-two punch of state and federal employment standards activity poses an existential threat to franchising; many commentators, including this one, have acknowledged that fact. But why? Did the California
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New COVID Restrictions in Pennsylvania Hit Franchising . . . Hard
At 4 p.m. today, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf (who himself has tested positive for COVID) and Secretary of Health Rachel Levine issued new, “limited-time”, targeted COVID mitigation orders. The orders
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Franchising on the Precipice: Unknowns in Transition
Over the last 8 years or so, the ever-changing landscape of employment laws has arguably posed an existential threat to franchising. The franchise business model may not make sense if
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