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Wayne Steinberg has become counsel to Hoffer Adler LLP in Toronto, Canada, in addition to retaining his responsibilities as General Counsel with WSI, a Canada-based franchisor providing digital marketing solutions to small and medium-sized businesses.
Deborah Coldwell, a partner in the Business Litigation Section and the Franchise and Distribution Practice Group at Haynes and Boone, LLP, has been nominated as the next chair of the American Bar Association Forum on Franchising. Coldwell is an active member on the Forum's Governing Committee and is the publication officer, overseeing the preparation, production, and publication of all handbooks, manuals, desk books and monographs for the Forum. She is also a featured author in the first edition of the American Bar Association's Franchise Litigation Handbook. Forum members will vote on committee nominations during the Forum's annual business meeting on Oct. 5 in Los Angeles. The Forum chair is elected for a two-year term that will begin in August 2013. Once elected, Coldwell would become the 16th chair (third female chair) of the Forum in its 36-year history.
Wayne Steinberg has become counsel to Hoffer Adler LLP in Toronto, Canada, in addition to retaining his responsibilities as General Counsel with WSI, a Canada-based franchisor providing digital marketing solutions to small and medium-sized businesses.
Deborah Coldwell, a partner in the Business Litigation Section and the Franchise and Distribution Practice Group at Haynes and Boone, LLP, has been nominated as the next chair of the American Bar Association Forum on Franchising. Coldwell is an active member on the Forum's Governing Committee and is the publication officer, overseeing the preparation, production, and publication of all handbooks, manuals, desk books and monographs for the Forum. She is also a featured author in the first edition of the American Bar Association's Franchise Litigation Handbook. Forum members will vote on committee nominations during the Forum's annual business meeting on Oct. 5 in Los Angeles. The Forum chair is elected for a two-year term that will begin in August 2013. Once elected, Coldwell would become the 16th chair (third female chair) of the Forum in its 36-year history.
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