Jeff and Annie Hughes will be showcasing Legal Grind® Coffee & Counsel®: the world's first Coffeehouse and Legal Resource Center on ABC’s prime-time reality television show “Shark Tank” on Friday, January 29 (9 PM ET/8 PM CT). The episode will re-air on March 6 (4pm ET/3 PM CT).
Legal Grind® incorporates the comfort of the coffeehouse setting with the support of a legal resource center to offer the ordinary American access to objective legal advice. In addition to affordable legal advice, Legal Grind® offers consumers a cost-saving opportunity to identify and select specific areas of their case in which to receive legal help or representation.
Deriving the idea from his love of coffeehouses, Jeff realized that the coffeehouse environment was a natural forum for a "self help" legal resource center. “Coffeehouses bring people together in an appealing, relaxing atmosphere to converse and share information. By incorporating this existing foundation, Legal Grind® introduces a unique 'outreach model' to the middle-class American where lawyers bring services one step closer to the people that need them but cannot normally afford them,” says Jeff of the Legal Grind® concept.
From Mark Burnett, executive producer of "Survivor" and "The Apprentice," “Shark Tank” gives ambitious entrepreneurs an opportunity to pitch their product or idea to a group of five ruthless, multi-millionaire investors (known as the “sharks”).
Legal Grind® currently has locations in Santa Monica, Inglewood and Baltimore. With funds from a Shark Tank investor, Jeff and Annie would have the opportunity to introduce additional locations in high-need areas around the country as well as finance a franchising system.
About Legal Grind
Jeff Hughes founded Legal Grind® 13 years ago with one goal in mind: to provide quality legal services at an affordable price to the ordinary, middle-class American in a comfortable environment – the modern-day coffeehouse.
In 2001, Legal Grind® won the American Bar Association’s legal access award for its innovative model, and was recently featured in the ABA’s journal in an article on innovative lawyering.
For more information on ‘Shark Tank,’ visit
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