MLM LAWS IN 50 STATES

Welcome to MLM Legal - a valuable resource to the Multi-Level Marketing and Direct Sales Industry. Use this site to review interesting articles about this high growth industry. Keep current with the law and how it is affecting large and small companies throughout the United States. MLM Legal is sponsored by Jeffrey Babener of Babener and Associates.

On any given day you can catch Jeffrey Babener lecturing on Network Marketing at the University of Texas or the University of Illinois, addressing thousands of distributors in Los Angeles, Bangkok, Tokyo and Russia, or writing a new book on Network Marketing, an article for Entrepreneur Magazine or a chapter for a University textbook. Over two decades he has served as marketing and legal advisor to some of the world's largest direct selling companies, the likes of Avon, Nikken, Melaleuca, Discovery Toys, NuSkin, and he has provided counsel to the most successful telecom network marketing companies...Excel, ACN, World Connect, ITI, AOL Select and Network 2000. An active spokesperson for the industry, he has assisted in new legislation and served on the Lawyer's Council, Government Relations Committee and Internet Task Force of the Direct Selling Association (DSA) as well as serving as General Counsel for the Multilevel Marketing International Association. He is an MLM attorney supplier member of the DSA and has served as legal counsel and MLM consultant on MLM law issues for many DSA companies.

Babener & Associates advises MLM companies on a wide range of legal matters as well as serving as an important informed resource on the MLM/network marketing/direct selling industry.

Initially, the firm will be available to be involved in review and writing of documentation for the respective distributor and customer from a legal standpoint of sales kit materials, distributor agreements, policies and procedures, brochures, training manuals, audio and video cassettes, etc. When sales materials are complete, we will also prepare and file registrations where required by MLM distribution statutes.

In addition, the firm will be available at the company's request to assist in a myriad of matters that would affect a network marketing company including, but not limited to: a variety of work on direct selling matters; regulatory, including Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Postal, state attorneys general, antitrust, pricing and competition restrictions, multilevel distribution statutes and registration, business opportunity, pyramid, sales referral, deceptive trade practices, franchising legislation, administrative matters; FDA regulatory compliance and label review; ongoing revisions of corporate and distributor materials, including print, audio and video, media; advertising and promotion review; distributor relations and disputes; sales tax or nexus-related issues; independent contractor, independent contractor issues, including unemployment classification, trademark and copyright matters, as necessary, including trademark searches and registrations; ongoing literature review; industry resourcing and planning; preventative litigation planning; vendor arrangements; licensing arrangements; press matters; Canadian regulatory matters; foreign expansion matters in cooperation with foreign affiliates; etc.

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