My practice is the same as in the Law Office of Stuart A. Heller except here I work with the Firm's clients.

Helping individuals and growing companies understand, negotiate and improve their leasing, real estate and business transactions based on significant retail and food service industry legal experience. For more information, useful articles I wrote, and worthwhile links see my:AVVO "Superb" rating and Profile: http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/98101-wa-stuart-heller-3928.htmlBlogspot.com (Blogger”) Blog: http://the-leasing-lawyer.blogspot.comWordPress Blog: http://theleasinglawyer.wordpress.comHubpages.com Hubs: http://hubpages.com/profile/hellerlawLinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartheller1As of January 1, 2017, creation of these sites has put me on page one of searches for "leasing lawyer" on Google, Yahoo, AOL Search, Altavista, Dogpile and Ask.com.

Established law department in this restaurant chain which tripled in size to 47 corporate and franchised units in ten states and Canada, with system wide sales of $85,000,000 in 1987. Responsible for all legal matters including licensing; business and real estate acquisitions; franchise prospectus registrations in the U.S. and Canada, enforcement of U.S. and Canadian franchise agreements; litigation and outside counsel; review and often negotiation of construction, advertising, financing, confidentiality, supplier and other contracts; commercial and customer claims; provided advice and counsel on regulatory and compliance issues, corporate and Board issues; and supported trademark, service mark and copyright registration and protection, franchise agreement negotiation, as well as major debt, equity and shareholder transactions.

Protected company’s intellectual property; counseled on multimillion dollar environmental issues and successfully appealed unreasonably restrictive governmental permits; tracked and proposed strategies for dealing with government regulation of waste and industrial chemical substances.