Firm: 2 Toots Train Whistle Grill
Practice Areas: Franchising
Lynn has an extensive, diversified background to include business leadership and management, law and the military. An experienced trial attorney and law firm executive, he has held leadership positions in several companies, to include: General Counsel-Mail Boxes, Etc., Chief Operating Officer-Colt’s Manufacturing (Colt Firearms), Chief Operating Officer-Submarina, Inc., Chief Executive Officer-Everest, LLC, Chief Operating Officer-2Toots Train Whistle Grill® and President-Recon6 Consultants.. Lynn is a dedicated advocate on veterans' issues to include: VA educational - healthcare benefits, PTSD, veteran employment, small business and veterans' advocacy initiatives. A past Director of Military and Veteran Services (University of Central Missouri), he was responsible for the ongoing support of all active-duty military and military veteran students. Foundational priorities were: education, mental wellness and job placement. *Under his leadership, UCM was recognized by the Missouri National Guard and the Missouri Veterans Commission as a leading veteran-supportive university.. Voluntarily enlisting in the USMC, Lynn went on to serve as an infantry officer and later as a JAG officer. A decorated combat veteran, he served as a team leader with 1st Force Reconnaissance Company (Special Operations) in South Vietnam. His combat experience is profiled in two books: First Force Recon Company - Sunrise at Midnight by Dr. Bill Peters and Inside Force Recon - Recon Marines in Vietnam by Michael Lee Lanning and Ray William Stubbe. His post-Marine Corps civilian accomplishments are profiled in the book, Above & Beyond: Former Marines Conquer the Civilian World by Rudy Socha and Carolyn Darrow.. Lynn is an author, career/life coach, motivational speaker and past board member of for-profit/non-profit entities.. Specialties: Business Management (Operations, Administration, Sales, Legal Compliance); Military Veteran Issues/Advocacy; Motivational Speaker (Character and Leadership)
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Firm: Marcus & Boxerman
Practice Areas: Franchising
I concentrate my practice in the business and franchise law. I am experienced in helping clients avoid disputes before they happen. But when they do, I use my years nearly 25 years of experience to resolve franchise, business, corporate, real estate and employment disputes in state and federal courts as well as through arbitration and mediation.. I earned my Bachelor of Arts in political science from Northwestern University and my J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, where I was a member of the Washington University Law Quarterly and recipient of the Gerald K. Presberg Scholar in Law Award. I am co-author of “Franchise Renewals: Considerations for Franchisors and Franchisees,” 19 Franchise Law Journal 2 (Fall 1999) and was a speaker at the Chicago Bar Association’s 2008 “Fundamentals of Franchising.”. I am admitted to practice in the states of Illinois and Missouri. I am a member of the Trial Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a member of the American Bar Association and its Forum on Franchising, the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association.
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