David J. Kaufmann is a founding member and senior partner of New York City’s Kaufmann Gildin & Robbins, LLP, which represents many of our nation's largest and most prestigious franchisors and a broad array of start-up/midrange franchisors.David - - partner-in-charge of Kaufmann Gildin’s franchise team - - is nationally acclaimed as one of the nation’s leading franchise lawyers. No less an authority than the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held that “David Kaufmann is unquestionably an expert in franchise law”. The New York Times lauds David as “…a lawyer in New York who has represented many of the nation’s top franchisors and who wrote the New York franchise disclosure law”. Franchise Times cites David as one of “franchising’s superstars”. And David has been featured in The Best Lawyers in America under the heading “Franchising - - New York City” in every edition of that publication and was named the New York Area Franchise Lawyer of the Year by New York magazine.David authored the New York Franchise Act (New York’s franchise statute); serves as an advisor to the organization of state and federal officials responsible for devising and coordinating franchise regulatory activity nationwide - - the NASAA (North American Securities Administrators Association) Franchise Project Group; co-authored the International Franchise Association’s treatise on franchise law, An Introduction to the Law of Franchising; served as a member of the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association Franchise Forum; co-authored the CCH Business Franchise Guide’s seminal analysis of the revised FTC Franchise Rule; served as Chair of the New York State Bar Association Franchise Law Committee; is the New York Law Journal’s franchise columnist; and, authors the Franchise Practice Commentary appearing in New York’s statute book, McKinney’s New York Statutes, which is routinely cited by federal and state courts determining franchise disputes.