The Great Defender
By Nancy Weingartner
Ask Ron Gardner, a partner with Dady & Gardner in Minneapolis, why he’s a franchise attorney, and he has a litany of reasons. But the main one: “My dad was a union guy and my mom was a social worker. I wanted to be in a courtroom. I didn’t want to make the world safe for shareholders. I wanted to help people like me and my parents – people on the wrong side of the deal.”