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Scott McIntosh  


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scott.mcintosh@dlapiper.com

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500 Eighth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
United States
T: +1 202 799 4273   F: +1 202 799 5273

Scott A. McIntosh has a broad-based practice in franchising law, with significant experience in myriad business, litigation, and regulatory issues that confront franchising companies. He has represented franchise clients in both state and federal litigation, including complex multiple party lawsuits. Mr. McIntosh also has represented clients in various forms of alternative dispute resolution, including binding arbitration before the American Arbitration Association. He has successfully represented a number of clients in responding to inquiries and investigations into potential violations of federal or state franchise statutes and regulations by the Federal Trade Commission and various state attorney general offices.

Mr. McIntosh has handled various facets of electronic discovery under the new electronic discovery provisions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as under the pre-2006 amendment version of the Rules. Mr. McIntosh has assisted clients in implementing document retention policies, formulating litigation hold memoranda, retrieving electronically stored information for review and production, and managing electronically stored information for effective use in litigation.

Mr. McIntosh also counsels clients on franchise relations, terminations, transfers, and regulatory compliance. His experience includes preparation of franchise and license agreements, area development agreements, numerous collateral agreements, and disclosure materials for domestic and international development. He has created documents for a variety of franchise business transactions, including the creation of advertising cooperatives and the sale of a domestic subfranchisor's assets.

In the June/July 2001 issue of Franchise Times magazine, Mr. McIntosh was profiled as one of the up-and-coming attorneys in the franchise bar. He has been listed in Washington DC's Best Lawyers for franchise law from 2009 to 2011.

Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • Virginia
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
  • United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
  • United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Memberships

  • American Bar Association

Publications

  • Co-author (with Joe Englert), "Taking Franchise Disputes to the Internet: Judicial Absolute Immunity Does Not Apply," FranCast (August 10, 2011)
  • Co-author (with John F. Dienelt), "Franchisor and Officers Prevail Against Sweeping Fraud Claims," FranCast (March 13, 2009)
  • Author, "How to Defend Against an Alleged Financial Performance Representation Violation," Chapter 5 in Financial Performance Representations: The New and Updated Earnings Claims (ABA Publishing 2008)
  • Co-author (with Barry M. Heller), “California Decision Clarifies Franchise Termination Damages,” FranCast (April 1, 2004)
  • Co-author (with Barry M. Heller), “When Franchisee Counsel Goes Too Far: Court Issues Sanctions in Connection with Withdrawn Superfluous Claims,” FranCast (September 22, 2003)
  • Author, "Mediation Before Litigation: Delaware Court's Expanded Jurisdiction Offers Remedy to Franchise Disputes," LJN's Franchising Business & Law Alert (July 2003 edition)
  • Co-author (with Erik B. Wulff), “Are Franchisors Caught in the Broad Web of the Anti-Terrorism Devices of Executive Order 13224 and the USA PATRIOT Act?,” FranCast (May 10, 2002)
  • Co-author (with Erik B. Wulff), "The Separate Product Test in Franchise Tying Cases: Through the Microsoft Lens of Reason," ABA Franchise Law Journal (Fall 2001)
  • Author, "Fair Criticism, Cyberlibel, and Unlawful Coordinated Action over the Internet," in the ABA Franchise Law Journal (Spring 2001)
  • Co-author (with Erik B. Wulff), "Electronic UFOCs Now A Reality," The Franchise Lawyer (Summer 2000)

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EDUCATION

  • J.D., Georgetown University Law Center 1998 cum laude
    Articles Editor, Georgetown International Environmental Law Journal
    Law Fellow, Legal Research & Writing Program
  • M.S., Georgetown University 1998
  • B.A., University of California at Los Angeles 1993
    Phi Beta Kappa

EDUCATION

  • J.D., Georgetown University Law Center 1998 cum laude
    Articles Editor, Georgetown International Environmental Law Journal
    Law Fellow, Legal Research & Writing Program
  • M.S., Georgetown University 1998
  • B.A., University of California at Los Angeles 1993
    Phi Beta Kappa

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