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Nancy Lanard has been providing legal counsel to franchisors and franchisees for over 30 years. She is the founder and senior partner at Lanard & Associates, focusing on helping franchisees with legal hurdles.
For more than 30 years, Nancy Lanard has been providing legal counsel to franchisors and franchisees. Lanard got her start in the industry as the in-house legal counsel with Nutri/System Inc. when it was the number-one weight-loss company in the country, with more than 1,300 franchise locations. Today, she is the founder and senior partner at Lanard & Associates, where she focuses exclusively on helping franchisees clear the industry’s myriad legal hurdles.
We spoke to Lanard to learn about how she got into franchising, what she loves about the industry and the biggest legal hurdles she sees facing the industry in 2022.
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This story was originally published in 1851 Franchise on November 12, 2021. Burnaze summarizes and links to the original reporting.
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