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title: "Franchise Legal Players: Rob Lauer of Haynes and Boone, LLP"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/15d6b9a2-aafc-4e3d-9e5b-b96234539a9e
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/franchise-legal-players-rob-lauer-of-haynes-and-boone-llp-2706134
category: "Suppliers"
industry: "Franchise Industry"
segment: "Suppliers"
topics: ["Regulation & legal"]
published: 2018-04-02T13:08:28.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:59:25.215Z
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# Franchise Legal Players: Rob Lauer of Haynes and Boone, LLP

**TL;DR:** Rob Lauer of Haynes and Boone, LLP discusses the firm's large and experienced franchise practice, with attorneys focusing 100% on franchising. He also shares his thoughts on the current state of the franchise industry, including the exponential growth in brands and competition, and the potential impact of US tax changes for 2018.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-04-02. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/franchise-legal-players-rob-lauer-of-haynes-and-boone-llp-2706134).*

## Story

We are headquartered in a hotbed of franchising (Texas) and have nationally and internationally ranked transactional and litigation attorneys that focus 100% of their energies on franchising, and but we are large enough to have offices and support for our franchise clients across the US in almost any potentially relevant area of the law. We also have one of the largest US firm offices in Mexico.

An attorney that focuses 100% of their energies on franchising is key, as is experience in the particular industry at play. Finally, you need to get along with and enjoy talking to your attorney. We have client contacts with whom we have been dealing for 20 years across different firms and clients.

I enjoy almost everything about my work, and the diversity of the type of franchise work is key to that enjoyment. A typical day could include first working with a brand new franchisor helping them create their franchise program from scratch and then moving on to a call with a mid-size client talking to them about their first potential default and termination, then consulting with one of the largest franchisors in the world about their multiple domestic and franchise offerings and then end the day talking to a franchisor regarding a complex international joint venture halfway across the world.

- Joint employer
- Minimum wage
- Macro-economy issues

Joint employer, minimum wage and other macro-economy issues are still at play even if some thought some of these issues might be alleviated with the change in administrations, but I do have concerns about the older and/or weaker franchise concepts and their continuing survival. There is seemingly exponential growth in the number of franchise systems and the competition among them (which ultimately is a very good thing), but there are a lot of brands that are struggling under the sheer weight of competition for a finite number of customers, and not all can survive.

- The exponential growth in brands and competition has drawbacks
- The number of amazing new concepts is incredible to watch
- The US tax changes for 2018 will be helpful to small business owners and their employees

While the exponential growth in brands and competition has drawbacks, the number of amazing new concepts is incredible to watch as both a franchise attorney and as a consumer. I am also optimistic that the US tax changes for 2018 will be helpful to small business owners and their employees, and may be an impetus for franchisors and franchisees to either decide to continue to expand or even spend money to upgrade and fix whatever may be holding them back.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Franchise Industry (sector)
- texas (location)
- franchise law (topic)
- Mexico (location)
- minimum wage (topic)
- joint employer (topic)
- franchise practice (topic)
- us tax changes (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/franchise-legal-players-rob-lauer-of-haynes-and-boone-llp-2706134). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/15d6b9a2-aafc-4e3d-9e5b-b96234539a9e).