Lawyers who know your business… IMDA members have convenient access to Kramer & Kramer, LLP, a legal firm with more than 25 years experience in the medical distribution industry. Mitchell Kramer, who has been IMDA’s general counsel since the association’s inception in 1978, has extensive antitrust litigation experience. With years of experience working with IMDA and other professional trade associations, Kramer is an expert in contractual issues.

This long-standing relationship entitles IMDA members to:

• Contract templates that take into account the unique needs of specialty sales and marketing companies. Examples include manufacturer-distributor agreements, manufacturer-representative agreements, equipment rental contracts, non-compete and general employment agreements.
• Free legal counseling sessions during IMDA’s Annual Management Conference.
• Free telephone consultations on minor legal issues, as well as a 15% discount on the firm’s regular billing rate.
• Presentations at IMDA conferences on topics such as hiring and firing, negotiation techniques, estate planning and other vital issues.
• Informative articles in the IMDA newsletter that analyze federal legislation and court decisions that affect you as a distributor and employer.

Contact Information:

Kramer & Kramer, LLP
Mitchell A. Kramer
Barbara H. Kramer
1077 Rydal Road, Suite 100
Rydal, PA 19046-1712

Phone:  (800) 451-7466
Email:  mkramer@kramerandkramer.com

 

One of our manufacturers, who was preparing to go direct, sent us a notice one summer that they were going to end our relationship at the beginning of the following year. Our contract agreement stated that this company had to provide at least 90 days’ notice of termination. I was resigned to losing the line the following January, but decided to run the notice as well as the contract past IMDA’s legal counsel, Mitchell Kramer. Mitchell informed me that our contract form was “legally interpreted” to mean that the manufacturer must give notice of termination at least 90 days prior to the anniversary date of the contract, which was coming up in about eight weeks. They had missed the notification date by only a couple of weeks! As a result of Kramer’s intervention, we kept this line for eight months longer than expected. That phone call, together with my involvement in IMDA, netted me more than $125,000 in gross profits that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise. And even though the manufacturer ultimately pulled the line, I was much better prepared for it.

--Dave Campbell, Vital/Med Systems

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