The art of franchising has turned one cottage industry after another into overnight business giants that dot the landscape of our global economy. Franchising has had a tremendous impact on business law and it continues to create new legal challenges that have substance.

Franchise law lawyers separate the fiction from the facts so franchise law is not one type of law, it is a combination or a collection of different areas of the law that explore the unique aspects and disciplines of franchising as well as the intellectual ingredients that make franchises so appealing, demanding, and in some cases financially lethal.

The franchising industry is a business force to reckon with. There's even an industry that focuses on finding the right franchise for people who want dip themselves into the sometimes trepid waters of working without a boss. There are thousands of attorneys who specialize in franchise law, and the computer industry has an assortment of software programs that are geared toward franchise owners as well as people who have signed an agreement to be a franchisee.

There are some many different types of franchises that some franchisors create their own interpretations of business laws. It almost seems like there should be franchise police that service the unsuspecting that enter the world of franchising without a proper franchise education, but franchise lawyers wear several hats in the franchise industry. In one sense they are the franchise police that exposed the charlatans and compliment the professionals, and in another sense they are brushes filled with the law glue that holds this rapidly expanding industry together.

The success of a franchise rests in proper business decisions. Location, products, and service are always key business ingredients, but trade secrets and confidential information and practices are the backdoor ingredients.

The responsibility of protecting trade secrets and other information is in the hands of the franchise lawyers. It's not an easy task to protect vital business ingredients when a franchise is growing at an incredible rate. The competition will do almost anything to break that solid wall of silence and infiltrate the trade secret bank in order to reduce their costs and to expand faster. A good franchise attorney is a versatile team player that protects, passes, and intercepts information that can damage the franchise.