Auckland franchising lawyer Stewart Germann has threatened to launch copyright proceedings against another firm he alleges copied 80 per cent of his franchising agreements.
An Auckland franchising lawyer has accused certain colleagues in the profession of laziness after his work was plagiarised a third time.
"Lawyers should know better," said Stewart Germann, who has worked in franchising law for 35 years.
After a third case of his firm's franchise agreements being copied by others,
Germann said "enough was enough".
He hired a Queen's Counsel and threatened to launch copyright proceedings against the allegedly infringing firm, which he said copied around 80 per cent of Stewart Germann Law's franchising agreements.
"It's laziness," Germann told the Herald.
