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Q&A: Rebecca Turner Shares Her Unique Perspective As a Franchise Attorney and Franchisee

BY ALM Staff
July 27, 2010

Rebecca Turner has a ground-level perspective on franchising. She's both a franchise attorney with Maddin, Hauser, Wartell, Roth & Heller P.C. in Southfield, MI, and she and her husband own five Jimmy John's franchises. In this Q&A, she discusses how her experience as a franchisee has affected her legal career and how she uses that perspective to work with franchisees and franchisors.

FBLA: What franchise do you own?

Turner: Our family business is a franchisee of Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches. We signed an area development agreement for six stores and our first franchise in 2002, opened our first store in April 2003, and just opened our fifth store in June 2010. Our stores are located in Macomb County, which is in southeast Michigan.

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