When Professor Arthur R. Miller taught Civil Procedure at the University of Michigan, before moving to Harvard Law School and later NYU Law School, his students used to pester him with the question, “What does a complaint look like?” Scornfully, Miller decided to answer this question not in words, but by action. He came to class one day dressed as a robot. His message, of course, was that it takes no great intellect or skill to draft a complaint.

Today, in the franchise context, there is a similar question: “How difficult is it to produce the documents—a Franchise Agreement, a Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) and an Operations Manual (collectively, the Franchise Documents) necessary for a business to become a franchisor?

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