Nancy L. Lanard

Attorney Nancy Lanard, Lanard Law

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Nancy grew up in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area where she was a magna cum laude graduate from the University of Pennsylvania  and received her graduate degree with honors from the same institution. She graduated from Villanova University School of Law where she was in the top ten percent of her law school class and was selected to be on the Law Review.

Nancy represents such corporations as Sylvan Learning Center, Inc., Huntington Learning Centers and FAB Cleaning, LLC, Materials Sciences Corporation (engineering consultants), Slingmax, Inc. (international licensor of rigging products), Wireless Xcessories Group, Inc. (publicly traded national wholesaler of wireless accessories), Doctors Pathology Services, PA (providing pathology services with a patented medical concept), Trash Butler, LLC (service organization), Rita's Water Ice Franchising Corporation, (franchisor of Italian ices, ice cream, gelati, etc.) Saladworks, Inc. (franchisor of quick casual salad restaurants), Hand and Stone Massage and Facial Spa (franchisor of massage and facial spas) and real estate developers, medical joint venture partners, computer software development companies, general contractors, as well as franchisees and potential franchisees of a myriad of franchises.

Nancy's experience has included general corporate and real estate counseling (including negotiating and drafting contracts, handling the purchase and sale of businesses, and representing businesses in the buying, selling, developing, managing, and leasing of real estate); assistance with hiring, firing, promoting and managing employees and the issues surrounding those actions; preparing financing documentation; advising on Federal regulations; and drafting and negotiating documentation for the sale and acquisition of franchises, including preparing Franchise Disclosure Documents and franchise agreements. She has overseen mass tort litigation of over 500 personal injury/product liability lawsuits, responded to Federal investigations of her clients by the FDA and FTC, advised on American's with Disabilities Act compliance, prepared employment manuals, assisted with international and national trademark and patent licensing, and provided bankruptcy and antitrust advice.

Nancy is a member of the American Bar Association Business Law Section and Forum on Franchising, the Pennsylvania Bar Association where she sits on the Solo Council, the board of the Solo and Small Firm Section, the Montgomery County Bar Association's Business Law Section and Franchise Law Committee and the Bucks County Bar Association’s Business Law Section and Women’s Law Division. She sits on the Board of Directors of PBN (Professional Business Network), has been an Ambassador for the Suburban Horsham Willow Grove Chamber of Commerce, was active in the Women's Resource Group of the Eastern Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce, and former chair of the Women's Business Resource Network of the Horsham Chamber of Commerce. Nancy is active in neighborhood relations and has assisted the youth in her community through various volunteer activities.

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Areas of Practice

Business & Commercial Law

Commercial Leasing
Contracts
Franchising
Joint Ventures
Transactions

Business Organizations

Business Successions
Closely Held Businesses
Dissolution
Formation & Business Planning
Franchising
Joint Ventures
Limited Liability Companies
Partnerships

Employment Law - Employer

Americans with Disabilities Act - Employer
Employment Contracts Employer

Intellectual Property

Technology Licensing

Real Estate Law

Commercial Leasing
Commercial Real Estate

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania

Education

J.D. Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, Law Review: Villanova University Law Review

M.S. University of Pennsylvania, Honors: With honors

B.A. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Honors: Magna Cum Laude Major: Spanish

Honors and Awards

Avvo Superb - (Superb is an attorney rating of 10 on a scale of 10)

Legal Eagle - an honor presented to the top 130 franchise attorneys in the US named by the publication Franchise Times Magazine in 2005 and 2011

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • American Bar Association, Member
  • ABA Forum on Franchising, Member
  • ABA Business Law Section, Member
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member
  • Montgomery County Bar Association, Member
  • Montgomery County Bar Association, Member, Franchise Law Committee
  • Montgomery County Bar Association, Member, Business Law Committee
  • PBN (Professional Business Network, Member, Board of Directors
  • Suburban Horsham Willow Grove Chamber of Commerce, Past Ambassador
  • Eastern Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce, Women's Resource Group
  • Horsham Chamber of Commerce Women's Group, Past Chairperson
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association, Solo and Small Firm Section, Member of Council
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association's Women in the Profession Committee, Member