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Blue MauMau, Mavi Marmara and the Net

When I started blogging here, a franchise lawyer asked me, "Why are you blogging on that site?  Don't you think it's reputation will rub off on you?"

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Early Active Intervention

Mediation is often touted as the panacea for dispute resolution.  It's not, and it suffers a bit from idol worship.  I'm a mediation evangelist myself, but it's just a tool and it has many limits.

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Bombthrowers and Lapdogs: When Franchisees Fight Each Other

Bombthrowers and lapdogs are the perjoratives usually flung in a fight among franchisees like that described in today's article on the Choice Hotel Advisory Council.

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Arbitration Is Good for Franchisees and Franchisors

The alarms that sound about arbitration for franchisees are nonsense.  They are built on unexamined anecdotes or examples of bad lawyering or they mistake the exception for the rule.

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Faster and Cheaper: Kill the lawyers?

So if the dispute resolution system is broke in terms of serving franchise businesses, why can't we make it faster and cheaper? One easy target is lawyers.

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New Auto Dealers Arbitration: Faster, Cheaper

Congress just passed a bill to allow terminated auto dealers to arbitrate their termination under an expedited procedure.  The procedure highlights the issue of faster, cheaper, that I've been discussing.

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The System Doesn't Work

How can he see he's got flies in his eyes if he's got flies in his eyes? (Orr to Yossarian in Catch 22) 

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Franchise Dispute Resolution Blog

This will be a blog about best practices for resolving franchise disputes. I'm professionally interested in this as I've been a trial lawyer representing franchisors, franchisees, and franchisee associations for 25 years, and I've been a mediator for 20 years.