About the Editor

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About the Editor

Jeffrey A. Bri mer, Editor

Jeff Brimer is a Special Counsel in the Denver, Colorado, office of Faegre & Benson

LLP. Previously, he was Of Counsel in the Denver office of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

and Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Medicine Shoppe Interna-

tional, Inc., a St. Louis, Missouri-based subsidiary of Cardinal Health, Inc. Mr.

Brimer is a graduate of the University of Missouri–St. Louis (B.A. in political sci-

ence, summa cum laude, 1976) and the University of Missouri–Columbia School

of Law (JD, 1979), where he was a member of the Missouri Law Review. He is a

member of the American Bar Association (Section of Business Law, Section of

International Law and Practice, and Forum on Franchising), the Colorado and

Missouri bars, and the International Bar Association. He holds a Certified Fran-

chise Executive designation from the International Franchise Association.

Mr. Brimer served on the Governing Committee of the Forum on Franchising

from August 2000 to August 2005. He also served as the Chair of the Long-Range

Planning Committee of the Forum on Franchising and on the ABA Section Offi-

cers Committee—CLE Task Force. He was Programs Officer of the Forum from

August 2002 until May 2004 and was cochair of the ABA Annual Forum on Fran-

chising, held in Scottsdale, Arizona, in October 2002. He was a member of the

Steering Committee of the Corporate Counsel Division of the Forum on Franchis-

ing from August 1994 through August 2000 and served as the Director of the

Division from August 1998 through August 2000. He is a member of the Interna-

tional Franchise Association Legal-Legislative Committee.

Mr. Brimer has written and spoken on a variety of franchise issues at the ABA

Annual Forum on Franchising, the International Franchise Association Legal

Symposium and Annual Meetings, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis,

the Kansas City Bar Association, the Colorado Bar Association, the Denver Fran-

chise Business Network, and the International Bar Association.

Mr. Brimer has been named to the International Who’s Who of Franchise

Lawyers, Franchise Times “Legal Eagles,” Chambers USA: America’s Leading

Lawyers for Franchising, and Best Lawyers in America.

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