Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, CONFERENCES: ABA Forum on Franchising’s 39th annual meeting set for early November, (Sep 12, 2016)
Organizations Mentioned:Phyllis Alden Truby, APC, Esq.
"Soaking up the Franchising" is the theme of the ABA Forum on Franchising’s 39th annual meeting to be held November 2-4, 2016, at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.
The meeting will feature three intensive programs on Wednesday, November 2, including the traditional fundamentals program, a panel on franchising in Latin America and the Caribbean, and a workshop addressing structuring and managing a franchise legal compliance program.
The main program on November 3 and 4 will feature two plenary sessions and 24 workshops, all supported by comprehensive written materials.
Topics and Speakers. The first plenary session will be the annual franchise and distribution law developments update presented by Earsa Jackson and David Gurnick.The second plenary session will feature Humorist at Law and Harvard Law grad Sean Carter offering fun filled insights into difficult ethicalissues facing franchise practitioners.
Workshops. Topics and speakers for the 24 workshops include: (1) intellectual property risks in adopting new technology, Craig Madson and Laura M. Burson; (2) has the joint employer conundrum come into focus?, Joe Fittante, Justin Klein, and Karen Marchiano; (3) maximizing monetary recovery in franchise cases, Bethany Appleby and Jim Meaney; (4) the risks and rewards in conducting comparative advertising, Mike Lockerby and Marc Lieberstein; (5) litigating selected disclosure issues beyond Item 19, Michael Gray and Julie Lusthaus; (6) the use and misuse of experts in franchise litigation, Lee N. Abrams and Barbara A. Bagdon; (7) right of publicity claims in the digital age, Mark VanderBroek and Jason Adler; (8) changes to the federal rules on discovery, Jeffrey J. Keyes (federal Magistrate Judge), Nina Greene, and Michael Garner; (9) vicarious liability in developing areas, Barry Heller, Jennifer E. Constantinou, and Alejandro Brito; (10) opening moves in franchise litigation, Tami McKnew, Ellen Locker, and John Jett; (11) seeking private justice through arbitration, J. Michael Dady and Paula Morency; (12) good faith and fair dealing, Erica Calderas and Jason Murray; (13) advanced drafting of financial performance representations, Max Schott, Dale Cantone (Maryland Asst. Attorney General), and Erica Karp; (14) menu labeling, Suzanne Trigg and Breton Permesly; (15) is your franchise agreement an unenforceable illusory contract?, John Dienelt and Robert Zarco; (16) structuring shared services and affiliation programs to avoid the application of franchise laws, Brian Cole and Jennifer Brockett; (17) advanced issues in franchisor acquisitions of franchisees, Emily Decker and Joel Buckberg; (18) a review of state mandated FDD and agreement addenda, Diana Vilmenay, Beata Krakus, and Halima Madjid; (19) EB-5 programs, Lee Plave and Kate Kalmykov; (20) challenges in identifying adequate insurance coverage for the franchisor and franchisee, Elizabeth Weldon, Eleanor Vaida Gerhards, and Doug Imholte; (21) executing binding and enforceable franchise agreements in international transactions; (22) navigating the landscape of global privacy and data protection, Leita Walker and Paul Jones; (23) labor unions and union organizing activities, Ruthie L. Goodboe and Paul Ades; and (24) regulatory update, Phyllis Alden Truby, Theresa Leets (California Dept. of Business Oversight), Peggy Shanks (Senior Examiner, Maryland Attorney General’s Office), and Sawan Patel.
For further information and registration details, please visit http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/images/franchising/annual16/brochure.pdf or contact the ABA at lisha.Morris@americanbar.org.
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