Understanding the importance of territorial rights, the various models for those rights, and how each arrangement can impact a franchise's success is critical when considering buying into a system.
Under Michigan's business judgment rule, bad calls made by leadership don't necessarily put them on the hook for bad outcomes.
Building relationships comes from truly getting to know one another, whether over Grateful Dead’s music or at an ABA conference.
"Causation," the connection between an employee's protected activity and an employer's adverse action, is at the center of retaliation claims.
For business partners, seeing the signs of an impending business divorce before conflict reaches critical mass can be the key to protecting their own interests as well as those of the company.
A franchisor and a franchisee's landlord both benefit when the franchisor is given an opportunity to cure a tenant default, but the devil can be in the details.