Olson Grimsley Founder Abigail Hinchcliff to be Honored by Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation
Award honors women lawyers who raise the bar by speaking truth to power
DENVER – Olson Grimsley is pleased to announce that firm co-founder Abigail Hinchcliff will be honored by the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation at its upcoming 19th Annual Raising the Bar Celebration.
Ms. Hinchcliff is one of four honorees recognized as “women who raise the bar by speaking truth to power, breaking barriers and leading through adversity.” According to the Foundation, honorees were also selected for demonstrating “courage in their work” and a “commitment to justice.”
“We could not be more pleased for Abby,” said Olson Grimsley co-founder Sean Grimsley. “We established this firm with the purpose of holding the powerful to account and taking on the nation’s biggest issues. Abby has had a hand in everything our firm accomplished. This honor is well deserved.”
Ms. Hinchcliff was a key member of the trial team that won a $60 million compensatory damages verdict against Mead Johnson, the maker of Enfamil baby formula, for causing necrotizing enterocolitis in a preterm baby. She is lead counsel in multiple cases challenging the illegal and hidden junk fees that Greystar, the nation’s largest property manager, imposes on Colorado tenants. Over Greystar’s protest, a panel of state judges consolidated the cases to proceed together. Ms. Hinchcliff drove the strategy for consolidation and successfully argued before Colorado’s Multi District Litigation Panel.
Prior to founding the firm, Ms. Hinchcliff was a trial partner at Bartlit Beck LLP and served as the First Assistant Attorney General of the Consumer Fraud Unit at the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, where she supervised and strategically directed the Office’s enforcement of Colorado’s Consumer Protection Act. The matters she oversaw resulted in the recovery of over $180 million for Colorado and consumers from companies that included industry leaders in telecom, vaping, social media, and retail.
“It is an honor to work every day to make the rule of law a reality for everyone in this country, not just the powerful,” said Ms. Hinchcliff. “I am grateful for the CWBA Foundation’s recognition, and proud to share this honor with three other inspiring lawyers and leaders.”
Ms. Hinchcliff graduated from Yale Law School and Wesleyan University, and clerked for Judge Raymond Kethledge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and for Judge Amul Thapar, then of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
The Raising the Bar Celebration will be held on Sept. 17 at the Denver Art Museum.