‘We Went All In': Veteran-Owned Gables Law Firm Makes COVID Comeback

By Hank Tester, CBS Miami

December 17, 2021

A veteran-owned Coral Gables law firm built a practice based on government contracts, and then the bottom fell out due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Gilchrist Law Firm-Coral Gables struggled, but with some help they are doing well once again.

The firm manages a number of federal, state, and local government contracts. It was the mainstay of their practice, a transition before the pandemic and doing well. The law firm was declared the Small Business Administration’s Best Prime Contractor in 2019 followed by the SBA award for being the Best Veteran-Owned Business in 2020. Then came COVID.

“All of our contracts halted. I am talking about we were ‘cooking.’ We were doing a lot of work and that halted,” firm founder Jacquin Gilchrist told CBS4. “We mobilized our office to work from home to really just do federal government contracting work during that time with help from the SBDC. We went all in.”

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