Corporate Counsel's Guide to Distribution Counseling

This practical guide is designed to assist you in counseling companies or other clients on distribution problems, providing techniques and approaches. It includes chapters on basic antitrust issues in distribution, avoiding supplier/distributor disputes, Federal and state franchise and dealership laws, software distribution, and the Robinson-Patman Act. It also discusses what to do when a distributor goes bankrupt, manufacturer/distributor warranties, common law of distribution agreements, alternative dispute resolution techniques for settling distributor disputes, and distributor terminations. It also contains a useful appendix of vertical restraints guidelines, illustrative agreements, and sample compliance plans, and agreements on CD-ROM.