James Houston Barnes III

THE FRANCHISE PRACTICE: Headquartered in North Carolina, serving clients throughout the South and beyond. Our firm specializes in all Franchise related matters, from exploring opening your first small franchise, to managing a national chain of franchised outlets. We bring extensive experience and professionalism to every client and customize our support to your individual needs and concerns. We have started and built successful companies ourselves, and more importantly we have helped many many entrepreneurs both turn their business into a franchise, and also live out their dream by joining one of the many exciting opportunities to operate a franchise in today's dynamic marketplace

HOUSTON BARNES: Founder of the Barnes Law Firm & Southern Franchise Law, Houston has built a strong reputation across the region as a business leader helping entrepreneurs and small businesses form and rapidly expand. In 2007, Houston was hired as one of the first executives with a life science, medical device, and pharmaceutical start-up. He was part of the team, which grew the start-up into a successful international healthcare company. In 2011 Houston founded his own firm. In less than 2 years he grew it into a leading boutique law firm serving entrepreneurs and growth stage businesses in the southeast. Houston has served on many corporate as well as local non-profit boards.