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18 Franchise Law. 1 (2015)

handle is hein.aba/frnchl0018 and id is 1 raw text is: Winter 2015 Vol.18, No.1 /1 Forum on Franchising Thve Fray his e wvyer American Bar Association Message from the Cha By Deborah Coldwell, Haynes and Boone, LLI Forum Chair * Forum on Franchising N early 800 Forum members and associ- ates (799, to be exact!) attended the 37th Annual Forum on Franchising meeting in Seat- tle this past October. The intensives, workshops, and plenaries covered thought-provoking and practical topics and were wonderfully executed by our talented and accomplished speakers. We dined together at some of Seattle's best restau- rants during a new event on Wednesday night - Restaurant Rounds. The Thursday and Friday social events took us to some of the best venues in Seattle - the Experience Music Project (EMP) Museum and Chihuly Garden and Glass. We gave back to the Seattle community by helping plant 700 trees in Lake Sammamish State Park for our Community Service event. Our thanks go to pro- gram co-chairs Jim Goniea and Will Woods for a magnificent job. During the annual meeting the Forum handed out three awards: * The Rising Scholar Award to Eric D. Stolze of Paul Hastings in Atlanta for his article: A Billion Dollar Franchise Fee? Tesla Motors' Battle for Direct Sales: State Dealer Franchise Law & Politics; * The Chair's Award for Substantial Written Work or Presentation to Ellliot Reed Gins- burg, a partner and shareholder at Michael Garner PA in Minneapolis, who last Fall co- authored with Michael Garner an article titled Nailing the Blob of Mercury: Goodwill in Franchising for the Franchise Law Journal; and * The Lewis G. Rudnick Award to the late Dennis E. Wieczorek, former DLA Piper partner and former Chair of the Forum, whose wife Marla Weiner and children accepted on his behalf The Forum planning committee, including Tami McKnew and Andrew Loewinger, program co- chairs for New Orleans, are already hard at work developing what promises to be a great Annual Meeting in the Big Easy. The meeting will be held October 14-16, 2015, at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown New Orleans. Mark your calendars and plan to join us next October. We also have a new venue and new dates for the 2016 Forum. It will be held at the Fontainebleau Hotel, November 2-4, in Miami. I am pleased to report that the Forum expects to go to print with a new edition of Fundamentals of Franchising in the next few months. This book is a practical guide to the basics of franchise law. Since Continued on page 17 For an electronic version of this issue and past issues go to www.americanbar.org/publications/franchise_Iawyer-home.html V I E Deborah Coldwell Haynes and Boone, LLP

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