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25 Franchise Law. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.aba/frnchl0025 and id is 1 raw text is: Winter 2022 Vol. 25, No. 01 AMERICANBARASSOCIAT ON Forum on Franchising Fra*hise A me r ican Ba r A sso c ia t io n Message from the Chair By Ron Coleman, Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP A lthough we all have gone back to our regular practices and jobs since our 2021 Annual Meet- ing, your Forum's leadership has been busy charting the path for 2022 and beyond. Planning for the 2022 Annual Meeting in San Diego on November 2-4 is well underway. We also recently concluded our mid- winter Governing Committee Meeting and, as we do once every five years, a long-range planning meet- ing that includes the Governing Committee and all Past Chairs. For those who don't know our process to plan the Annual Meeting, each year we have a planning committee composed of the current year's Co-Chairs (this year Jason Adler and Ben Reed), last year's meeting Co-Chairs, the following year's Co-Chairs, the Forum Chair, and the Immediate Past Chair. Within a few weeks after the Atlanta meeting ended, Jason and Ben put together a first draft of the 2022 program, including proposed workshops, plenaries, and intensives. Many of their ideas came from submissions by our members, which is one of the ways we are able to put on consistently strong programs every year. The planning committee met in December on site in San Diego to review and revise the program and to look at meeting space and potential event venues. We then circulated the revised program for review by the entire Governing Committee. The Governing Committee spent a full day at our mid-winter meeting going over all the proposed programs to vet them and select speakers. Each year, we seek to balance speakers among our different constituencies and to make room for new and diverse speakers. We have a great program in the works for this year, which we will announce soon. This year's long-range planning meeting was also very productive. It is one of the great strengths of our organization to have the active participation of so many Past Chairs, who provide institutional knowledge and continuity as well as a variety of different perspectives on the current and future opportunities and challenges for our Forum. One of the significant issues we discussed at this year's meeting was the Forum's 2021 membership survey, which we conduct every five years. We are pleased that, as in prior surveys, our membership expressed a uniformly high degree of satisfaction with our Annual Meetings (both content and Continued on page 19 p RON COLEMAN Parker, Huclson. Rainei Dobbs I P For an electronic version of this issue and past issues, go to https://www.americanbar.org/groups/franchising/publications. - Fo r um on F ran c hising r &

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