John Dienelt is a litigator with 30 years of trial and appellate experience, particularly in franchising, antitrust, intellectual property, and other commercial cases. Mr. Dienelt has concentrated on complex and enterprise-threatening litigation, including class actions. He has also represented private parties in disputes with the federal government before courts and administrative agencies.

Mr. Dienelt has tried, or handled arbitrations in, more than 75 cases and has argued more than 25 appeals in various federal and state courts and the United States Supreme Court. The author of numerous articles, he is a regular speaker at programs on franchising and teaches franchise law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and at the University of Virginia Law School. He has also taught in the National Institute of Trial Advocacy program at Georgetown.

He has served as a member of the Governing Committee of the ABA Forum on Franchising and was its chairman from 1999 to 2001. He has also served on the steering committee of the National Franchise Mediation Program, has been appointed as a mediator for the Federal and District of Columbia court systems, and is an arbitrator and mediator for franchise and distribution disputes for the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. The DC Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights has recognized him for his pro bono activities.

Before entering private practice Mr. Dienelt served as assistant to the Solicitor General in the United States Department of Justice and as Washington counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund.

Mr. Dienelt is listed in An International Who's Who of Franchise Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America 2003-2004 (10th Edition), and the 2005 Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. He was also named in Franchise Times’ “Legal Eagles,” as one of the top 101 franchise lawyers in the US and Canada. The respected English publisher Chambers & Partners names him in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. In 2007, citing his "smart, measured approach," Chambers described him as “enormously experienced and effective in a courtroom,” and in 2008 it called him “an outstanding litigator.”

认许

• District of Columbia

出版物

• Co-author, "Settling Franchise Class Actions," Franchise Law Journal (Winter 2002)
• Co-author, "Fourth Circuit Reverses $390 Million Meineke Judgment," Franchise Lawyer (Fall 1998)
• "Carvel Encroachment Decision Ensures Continued Debate," Franchise Lawyer (Fall 1997)
• "Measuring Vylene's Impact,"Franchise Lawyer (Spring 1997)
• "Have You Seen Vylene? "Franchise Lawyer (Winter 1997)
• Co-author, "Franchising Currents,"Franchise Law Journal (Summer 1996)
• Co-author, "Procedural Decisions at the Threshold of Dispute Resolution, "Franchise Law Journal (Winter 1993)
• Co-author, "State Efforts to Limit Arbitration, "Franchise Law Journal (Spring 1992)
• Co-author, "Tying and Franchising: A Question of Perspective," Franchise Law Journal (Winter 1987)

Seminars

• "Mock Franchise Arbitration," ABA Forum on Franchising Annual Meeting (October 2004)
• "Arbitration and Mediation in International Franchise Relationships," Annual Conference of the International Bar Association (September 2003)
• "Does Antitrust Remain Relevant to Franchising," IFA's 35th Annual Legal Symposium (May 2002)
• "Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms/Mediation," Buisness Solution Roundtable, IFA 42nd Annual International Franchise Convention, Orlando (February 2002)
• "The Jury Mystique: Winning Jury Trials in Franchise Case," ABA Forum on Franchising Annual Meeting (October 2001)
• "Franchise Termination: The Franchisee's Post-Termination Use of the Franchisor's System and Property," ABA Forum on Franchising Annual Meeting (October 2000)
• "Litigation Strategies: Beyond Class Actions," ABA Forum on Franchising Annual Meeting (October 1999)
• "Judicial Update," IFA's 32nd Annual Legal Symposium (May 1999)
• "Network Expansion Conflicts," IFA's 30th Annual Legal Symposium (May 1997)
• "Gerrymandering: When is Expansion Encroachment?" ABA Forum on Franchising Annual Meeting (October 1996)
• "Mediation," IFA's 28th Annual Legal Symposium (May 1995)
• "Judicial Update," ABA Forum on Franchising Annual Meeting (October 1994)
• "Franchise Regulation Facing A Time Of Change," ABA Forum on Franchising Annual Meeting (October 1992)
• "Judicial Update," IFA's 25th Annual Legal Symposium (May 1992)
• "Hot Topics in Franchise Litigation," IFA's 24th Annual Legal Symposium (May 1991)
• "Fundamentals of Franchising," ABA Forum on Franchising Annual Meeting (October 1990)
• "Franchise Arbitration: Pros and Cons," ABA Forum on Franchising Annual Meeting (October 1990)
• Mock Jury Trial, IFA's 22nd Annual Legal Symposium (May 1989)

工作经历信息

• Law clerk to the Honorable Gerhard A. Gesell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia