The seeming confusion over Memorial Day, especially when we’ve lost almost 7,000 American servicemen and women in the wars we’ve been fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, and against ISIS,
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Not a Joint-Employer? Franchisors Now Need to Prove the Negative in California
A wage and hour case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising International, is the latest front in the joint employer battle. In Vazquez,
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Franchise Times Names Fox Attorneys as ‘Legal Eagles’
Fox Rothschild LLP congratulates Eleanor Vaida Gerhards, John R. Gotaskie, Jr., Elizabeth D. Sigety, and Craig R. Tractenberg, who were featured among the 2019 “Legal Eagles” by Franchise Times magazine.
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Restaurant Structural Change: The Opportunity
Last time we asked, given the high number of restaurant concept bankruptcies and money sloshing around in the sector, is there still more upside than downside in the restaurant franchising
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Restaurant Structural Change: The Challenge
Imagine operating a single restaurant. The food keeps bringing them in, and prices are relatively stable. Consumer confidence is high, unemployment low, discretionary income rising, and people are going out
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Failing to Plan? Then Plan to Fail.
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, “Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.” That is true in any business, but particularly so in franchising. Planning is more important in franchising because
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Did the D.C. Circuit Overrule or Uphold Browning-Ferris? Yes.
On December 28, 2018, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in the Browning-Ferris case. In this much anticipated decision, the Court of Appeals concluded that the National
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Does GDPR Apply to Your Brand? Fresh Answers Here.
Submitted by Odia Kagan, Partner & Chair of GDPR Compliance and International Privacy.
Does the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) apply to my brand? This is a question
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It’s Deja Vu All Over Again at the NLRB
With apologies (and props) to the great Yogi Berra, it’s deja vu all over again at the National Labor
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Are You Doing the Right Due Diligence as You Grow Your System?
In our last post, we examined some of the types of risk that come with growth. In this post, we discuss some forms of diligence that may be used to
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