If you are considering working as a Franchise Attorney for a big law firm then you will most likely need to get some experience in the field, write some articles in law journals on the subject and perhaps get a Certified Franchise Executive Degree CFE. Getting a CFE is not a hard degree to get and you can get one online and with a few seminars. It would be a worthy thing to have if this is a career path you choose. If you have done these things they would make incredible additions to your resume to become a franchise attorney. Franchise Attorneys need to be well-versed in many aspects of franchise law and it is important to have this knowledge and post it on your resume. Another very smart thing to put on your resume is a few years of participation on the ABA American Bar Association forum on franchising, which is an online listserve. Having clients who are both franchisees and franchisors make sense too and some of this experience should be in the compiling of UFOCs or Uniform Franchise Offering Circulars. Lastly you really need an MBA too from a top notched college, if you do not have one on your resume you maybe surprised that even with all the other examples of knowledge on your resume, you might still be passed over. So many franchise attorneys are totally incompetent and you need to prove you are not one of the many. Consider all this in 2006. |
