Ric is a seasoned business and commercial litigator and trial lawyer, and also serves as an arbitrator and mediator on American Arbitration Association panels. As a litigator, Ric represents clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts across the country as well as in alternative dispute resolution forums such as arbitration and mediation. He has extensive experience in the areas of distribution, antitrust, trademarks, valuation, and finance, among others.

Ric spends most of his time keeping the world safe for franchising. For over thirty-five years, Ric has represented many of the nation’s most prominent franchise, licensing and distribution companies in a wide variety of lawsuits from complex multi-forum class action litigation to standard enforcement actions and everything in between.

Ric has helped franchisors develop programs to protect and enforce their franchised systems and intellectual property rights like trademarks and trade secrets, and he regularly defends franchisors against fraud, breach of contract, good faith and fair dealing, tortious interference, registration and disclosure violations, and similar claims. Ric also works with franchisors to develop effective responses to state and federal regulatory inquiries and investigations, as well as strategies to defend state and federal enforcement actions. Chambers USA commented that Ric “is hailed by peers as an excellent litigation lawyer” and “one of the great litigation experts in the [franchising] field.”