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This week on Franchise Today, the Second Annual Franchise Legal Series continues with Adam Siegelheim as special guest. Adam, Franchise Attorney at Stark & Stark, provides a recap of the recently completed IFA Legal Symposium 2011. In addition, Franchise Today host, Paul Segreto, is joined by Co-producer, Joe Caruso, to discus the Franchise Legal Series and insight into future segments of Franchise Today.

This week on Franchise Today, the Second Annual Franchise Legal Series continues with Leslie Curran and John Tifford as guests. Leslie and John,  Franchise Attorneys and Partners at Plave Koch PLC, and host, Paul Segreto, discuss utilizing franchise brokers in today's digital world and specifically within social media, and in accordance with franchise sales best practices.

This week on Franchise Today, Host Paul Segreto welcomes Warren Lee Lewis as his guest in the fourth segment of the Second Annual Franchise Legal Series. A Partner - Franchising and Licensing at Akerman Senterfitt, and a guest on last year's legal series, Warren is the author of The Franchise Seller's Handbook. Paul and Warren discuss franchise sales best practices with focus on regulation of franchise sales, franchisor activities impacting on franchise sales, offering and selling a franchise to a prospect, and examples of franchise sales gone wrong.

This week on Franchise Today, the seven-part Franchise Legal Series continues. In the third segment of the series, Host, Paul Segreto, welcomes as his guest, Lee Plave, Owner and Co-founding Partner at Plave Koch PLC.

Paul and Lee focus their discussion on utilizing social media within a franchise environment with emphasis on the legal perspective including social media policies and procedures, franchise sales compliance, social media litigation and of course, benefits of utilizing social media within a franchise organization.

This week in the second segment of the Second Annual Franchise Legal Series on Franchise Today, Host, Paul Segreto is joined by Jonathan Redgrave, Attorney and Partner at Redgrave LLP, a law firm with singular focus on Information Law, including social media. From the franchise perspective, Jonathan and Paul discuss social media and e-discovery legal issues.

This week on Franchise Today begins the Second Annual Franchise Legal Series. The series has been expanded to seven segments for 2011, up fom four segments last year.

The series premier finds Franchise Attorney, Lane Fisher, joining Franchise Today host, Paul Segreto, to discuss Financial Performance Representations, or as they are more commonly kown throughout franchising, FPR's. A guest on last year's Franchise Legal Series on Franchise Today, Lane Fisher is a Partner at FisherZucker LLC and is extremely active within the International Franchise Association.

Focusing on FPR's, Lane and Paul discuss non-traditionl FPR's, fear of including FPR's in FDD's, and FPR misconceptions by franchisors and attorneys alike. In addition, Lane and Paul touch upon the recent International Franchise Expo and the IFA-hosted Small Business Lending Summit.

In the last segment of the 2010 Franchise Legal Series on Franchise Today, host Paul Segreto welcomed Leslie Curran as his guest. Leslie is a Franchise Attorney at Plave Koch PLC and Board Member / President-elect at NAWBO Greater DC. Paul and Leslie discussed how to utilize franchise brokers while mitigating risk. In addition, Leslie reported on the 2010 IFA Legal Symposium and provide some insight into the Women's Franchise Network.

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In the third segment of the four-part 2010 Franchise Legal Series on Franchise Today, Host, Paul Segreto, welcomed as his guest, Franchise Attorney, Warren Lee Lewis, to discuss Franchise Sales Best practices. Warren is the author of The Franchise Seller's Handbook and is Shareholder - Franchising & Licensing at Akerman Senterfitt. Paul and Warren focused on maintaining compliance throughout the franchise sales process, permitted and prohibited franchise sales practices and much more.

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As the 2010 Legal Eagle Franchise Series continued, Host Paul Segreto was joined by Lane Fisher, Partner at Fisher Zucker LLC. Lane is a very active member of the International Franchise Association (IFA) and is a member of its Board of Directors. Paul and Lane discussed developing Financial Performance Representations (FPRs) for inclusion in Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDDs). They also focused on the do's and don'ts of utilizing those representations to ensure compliance within federal guidelines while effectively utilizing the representations for mutual benefit of franchisor and franchise candidates.

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As a preview for the 2011 Franchise Legal Series on Franchise Today we will rebroadcast all four segments from our 2010 legal series. Starting with guest, Michael Webster, Principal at the Law Office of Michael Webster and Chair of Strategic Committee at International Association of Franchisees and Dealers, Franchise Today host, Paul Segreto, explored legal issues within franchising today. In this segment, Paul and Michael discussed the purpose of independent franchise associations, alternative dispute resolution and the 2010 convention for the International Association of Franchisees and Dealers in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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