Restaurateurs call upon our team for advise concerning the protection or proper use of trademarks, the best corporate form for their business, and the drafting or negotiation of operating agreements, employment agreements, and manufacturing agreements, among other types of agreements. Recently, a Los Angeles based hamburger chain that was voted the best hamburger by GQ Magazine in 2010 retained the firm to register and protect their trademark. Previously, a franchisee of Elevation Burger®, a Virginia hamburger franchise that specializes in grass fed, organic, hamburgers from Australia, retained the firm as general counsel, which included the drafting and negotiation of the franchise's operating agreement.