In This Issue:

- The Next Hot Trend in Economic Development: Craft Beer

- Class Action Attempt to Void Jimmy John’s Non-Competes Goes Stale

- Use of Customer Survey Data Upheld in Hotel Franchise Terminations

- Franchisees Flatline in Case Against Doctors Express

- NLRB’s Quickie Election Rule Takes Effect

- Georgia Supreme Court to Franchisees: Read Your Contracts!

- Joel Buckberg Named Franchise Times “Legal Eagle” for Ninth Consecutive Year

- Baker Donelson Ranked 30th on FORTUNE’s 100 Best Companies to Work For ® List; Sixth Consecutive Year on the List

- Excerpt from The Next Hot Trend in Economic Development: Craft Beer:

The Brewers Association, a trade association representing small and independent American craft brewers, recently released 2014 data on the United States craft beer industry. For the first time ever, at 11 percent, the craft segment reached double-digit volume share of the marketplace.