The Boston Globe recently spoke with Partner Jay Gonzalez about our new partnership with The GK Fund to provide pro bono legal services to BIPOC & Women startup founders in Boston.

From the Globe:

The Colette Phillips Network keeps getting bigger.

This time, about two dozen corporate lawyers at the Boston office of law firm Hinckley Allen have been drawn into marketing maven Phillips’s web of connections. These lawyers will be donating their time to a cohort of diverse entrepreneurs who received grants through the GK Fund, a nonprofit that Phillips launched with Andre Porter and Michael Benezra to foster startups owned by women and people of color.

Hinckley Allen partner Jay Gonzalez, who volunteers on the GK Fund board, leads this effort on behalf of his firm. It came about because grant winners said that, after money, legal help tops the list of things they need most. For startups, that could mean anything from reviewing vendor contracts to negotiating a lease to securing intellectual property rights. (The GK Fund got its name from Phillips’s “Get Konnected!” series of networking events.)

Gonzalez said fund organizers will start matching the grant recipients — 11 so far — with attorneys later this month. The work will dovetail with broader diversity efforts championed by the firm.

“We’ve got a ton of enthusiasm [at Hinckley Allen],” said Gonzalez, the Democratic nominee for Massachusetts governor in 2018. “We can leverage the expertise and experience that people have to have an impact and make a difference on something that’s meaningful and important.”

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