Many firms claim they practice Franchise Law on their website, or in their marketing materials, but do they really?
Franchise Law is a specialty, like brain surgery, and you shouldn’t hire someone to handle your franchise law issue who is not an expert on the subject. You wouldn’t hire a general practitioner to operate on your brain or your heart, would you?
Anyone can call himself a franchise lawyer or claim to have franchise law experience. Don’t be fooled. Have them tell you about their actual franchise credentials? How many cases have they brought or defended that involved Ohio’s Business Opportunity Law (the state’s only law that deals specifically with franchises)? How many years have they devoted to Franchise Law problems and what percentage of their practice is made up of franchise issues? How many Franchise Agreements and FDD’s have clients paid them to write, and how many have franchise buyers paid them to review? Is their office located in Ohio or elsewhere? (Ohio’s law is very different than other states’ franchise laws.) Has another law firm ever hired them to act as an expert witness or consultant in franchise litigation?
Most lawyers who advertise themselves as Franchise Lawyers Ohio have experience doing one kind of franchise work, like document drafting, or litigation, but not both, and Franchise Law represents only a small percentage of their law practice. The law firm of Stanley M. Dub is different.
No other lawyer or law firm in Ohio has Franchise Law credentials that can compare to those of Attorney Stanley M. Dub. Mr. Dub’s law firm is the real deal — the leading franchise law firm in Ohio.
–Mr. Dub has practiced Franchise Law in Ohio since 1989. He has represented both franchisors and franchisees in important precedent-setting lawsuits in Ohio and elsewhere. He has written documents for start-up franchisors and gotten them registered in states across the country. He has reviewed hundreds of Legal Documents For Franchise packages for would-be franchise buyers. He has frequently been hired by other law firms to give expert testimony or consult in franchise-related litigation.
–Most lawsuits are settled and many are actually settled before suit is filed. Every client would prefer that. But a client cannot hope to achieve a good settlement result unless their attorney has the other side’s respect. Mr. Dub has frequently represented franchisees in court against a better funded franchisor, represented by a large law firm that specializes in franchise law matters. Mr. Dub has an excellent record in such disputes.
–Over the past 15 years, Mr. Dub has been involved in more than half of the court decisions relating to Ohio’s “franchise law” — far more than any other Ohio lawyer or law firm. In a notable case, Mr. Dub represented four Ohio hearing aid franchisees against their Arizona franchisor, claiming that the franchisor violated Ohio’s law when he sold them their franchises. The franchisor argued that Ohio law did not apply because the Franchise Agreement had a clause stating that Arizona law applied. The franchisor used three large law firms and filed four lawsuits of its own but the Arizona federal court ultimately decided that Ohio law applied rather than Arizona law, and the case was then settled in favor of Mr. Dub’s clients. (The case is Zounds Hearing Franchising, LLC. V. Bower, D.C. Arizona, 2017 U.S. Dist Lexis 151940.)
–Mr. Dub has taught Franchise Law each year since 2016 at a national law school, CWRU Law and is an Adjunct Professor there. This is the only course on Franchise Law taught at an Ohio law school and one of only a handful taught anywhere in the U.S.
–Since 1990, Mr. Dub has been a member of the ABA’s Forum on Franchising, the national organization of franchise lawyers Ohio. Two of his articles have been published in the Forum’s scholarly journal, “the Franchise Law Journal,” and Mr. Dub has been a presenter of a workshop on Franchise Agreement clauses at one of the organization’s national symposiums.
–Mr. Dub was instrumental in passage of the 2012 amendments to the Ohio Business Opportunity Law. He campaigned within the Ohio Bar Association to sponsor an amendment to the law, then served on the committee of the Ohio Bar Association that wrote the amendments, eventually writing some of the language of the law himself. Mr. Dub subsequently testified about the proposed amendments during hearings in the Ohio legislature.
For All Your Franchise-Related Legal Needs in Ohio, Contact The Law Office of Stanley M. Dub!
Compare Mr. Dub’s franchise law credentials to those of any other Ohio attorney and you’ll agree Mr. Dub stands head and shoulders above the rest.
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