About Kevin Grimes

Kevin Grimes is an attorney with Thompson Burton, in Nashville, Tennessee. He has practiced law for 35 years. For the last 29 years, he has specialized in direct selling and network marketing law, as well as the practice areas frequently associated with them including food, drug, cosmetic, and dietary supplement law; compensation plans and consumer protection laws; distributor contractual documents such as Distributor Agreements and Policies and Procedures; distributor compliance; and international expansion. His clients are a proverbial “Who’s Who” of direct selling and multilevel marketing including Herbalife, Shaklee, Tupperware, USANA, Metabolife, ItWorks Marketing, MonaVie, and over 1000 others. Kevin is the author of numerous MLM legal resources, including www.MLMComplianceVT.com, “Legal Do’s and Don’ts for Network Marketers,” “What to Look For and What to Look Out For in Multilevel Marketing”, and “MLM - It’s Legit!” Perhaps the single most unique and important aspect of the talents and experience Kevin brings to the table is that, prior to joining the industry as an attorney, he was a distributor for two large direct selling organizations, Amway and Nikken, and built his last organization up to a group volume of over $40,000 per month. On the personal side, Kevin was a foster parent from 2000 to 2013. During that time fostered 24 teenage boys, and adopted two of them. In 2018, he adopted a 14 year from Bulgaria, and in 2020, he adopted another 14 year old from Latvia. Since 2016, he has participated in orphan hosting programs that bring orphans from developing countries to the U.S. for 4-5 over Christmas and 4-8 weeks over the summer. Several times a year, he volunteers at Hogar CIMA, a group home for abandoned children in Lima, Peru. His passion is youth ministry and making a difference in the lives of children.