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Volume 19, Number 4
March/April 2010
Our mini-theme: Franchise Law

As of 2005 there were more than 909,000 franchised business establishments in the United States alone, providing more than 11 million jobs. These businesses directly or indirectly are responsible for the creation of nearly 21 million private sector jobs with an economic output of more than $2.3 trillion per year. According to the International Franchise Association, in 2010, the credit crisis in the United States will result in a shortfall of $3.4 billion in lending to franchise businesses, which will result in 134,000 jobs not created and $13.9 billion in lost economic output.   more

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Published quarterly, The Business Lawyer is the premier business law journal in the country, circulating to approximately 60,000 readers. It contains articles of significant interest to the business lawyer, including case law analysis, developing trends and annotated listings of recent literature.

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