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Facing up to franchises

28 September 2011
Issue: 7483 / Categories: Legal News
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Another national franchise for solicitors’ firms has launched

Face2face solicitors took on its first franchisee, Shrewsbury solicitor John Burrowes, last week. The franchise is aimed at small firms and start-ups.

Ray Gordon, face2face managing director, said: “As a franchisee, John has been able to set up a business with a reduced capital requirement and will be able to grow his practice more rapidly with lower overheads and with the security of being part of a national brand. He will also achieve a level of compliance and efficiency that may otherwise have been cost prohibitive.”

Existing national franchises include QualitySolicitors and injurylawyers4u.
 

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