Hughes Media Law Group

Hughes Media Law Group Hughes Media Law Group provides the expertise and sophistication of a large firm with the flexibility of a boutique.

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This is me and Tom () of Triple Squirrels and EVGRN (), mid recording session, cables and mic stands everywhere. I love ...
09/01/2026

This is me and Tom () of Triple Squirrels and EVGRN (), mid recording session, cables and mic stands everywhere. I love working with people who are building something in film and entertainment. Every project in this space looks different, but the thing I never get tired of is being close enough to the process to actually understand what someone's trying to make before we get anywhere near paperwork.

More on how we support film and entertainment clients is at hmlglaw.com.

*General information only, not legal advice. Individual circumstances vary.

08/28/2026

I ask every founder some version of the same question, what actually was the hardest part of getting started, and after years as a startup lawyer, the answers still surprise me. Jill Angelo’s cut right to fundraising. Her words stuck with me: you have to learn by doing, and when you have to learn by doing, you fail a lot first. It took her a long time to bring in any investment at all.

That’s the part of the story that never makes it onto a pitch deck, and it’s usually because a founder needs someone in their corner who’s done this before, not after the round closes, while they’re still in the failing-a-lot part.

*General information only, not legal advice. Individual circumstances vary.

This is a call I recorded years ago with Mikaela Kiner for The Lawyer Who Rocks podcast, sitting on a monitor next to a ...
08/24/2026

This is a call I recorded years ago with Mikaela Kiner for The Lawyer Who Rocks podcast, sitting on a monitor next to a mixing board, chat window running alongside the video feed. I've been doing this podcast on and off for a while now, which means I've also had to work through the actual legal side of it myself, from guest releases and music clearances to figuring out what can get reused later and how to handle sponsorship disclosures.

That's part of why I like working with podcast clients now. I'm not guessing at what they're dealing with, I've sat in the exact same chair, trying to record while the tech half works and still get the legal side right.

*General information only, not legal advice. Individual circumstances vary.

08/21/2026

What really got me was when Michael said if he doesn’t help his client make a dent in the universe the way they actually want to, he’s not doing his job. We were talking about his business and somewhere in there I realized he runs it almost exactly the way I run mine, just in a completely different industry. He builds out manuals and operations systems for his clients early, before anything’s broken, and that’s basically my approach to legal too.

That line stuck with me because it’s exactly how I think about legal work. It’s not just contracts and cleanup, it’s strategy, and it only works if you’re actually invested in where the client is trying to go.

*General information only, not legal advice. Individual circumstances vary.

Standing in front of our own backdrop still catches me off guard sometimes, mostly because I remember when Hughes Media ...
08/17/2026

Standing in front of our own backdrop still catches me off guard sometimes, mostly because I remember when Hughes Media Law was just an idea I was chasing between client calls.

Everyone here, attorneys and staff alike, has actually owned or run a business before landing at HMLG, so legal questions get treated like business decisions first, not just something to research and bill for. More than one person on our team also knows your company, so nobody's ever stuck waiting on one specific calendar to open up.

That was the idea from day one, and it's still what I'm building toward every time we add someone new to the team.

08/14/2026

I still think about this one. Jennessa West called us right in the middle of shooting to confess she’d basically agreed to adapt someone’s book into her film on a handshake and a “trust me.” The second she got handed off to their actual attorney, the terms got a lot less friendly. It’s a move we see a lot when a small producer is dealing with a much bigger company.

My team got on it, told her the ask was posture, not a real offer, and negotiated it down to something she could actually live with. Most of the job in a moment like that isn’t fighting harder, it’s knowing which parts of the threat are real.

*General information only, not legal advice. Individual circumstances vary.

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