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title: "Nancy Lanard"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/9aaf59c5-7747-407a-8854-fb5f5afd8b59
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/top-franchise-legal-players-nancy-lanard-lanard-associates-2717172
category: "Franchise Industry"
industry: "Franchise Industry"
published: 2021-11-12T15:10:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:12:56.493Z
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# Nancy Lanard

**TL;DR:** 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.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2021-11-12. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/top-franchise-legal-players-nancy-lanard-lanard-associates-2717172).*

## Story

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.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Franchise Industry (sector)
- franchise law (topic)
- franchising industry (topic)
- legal counsel (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/top-franchise-legal-players-nancy-lanard-lanard-associates-2717172). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/9aaf59c5-7747-407a-8854-fb5f5afd8b59).