| Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts |
| No. of offices | 8 |
| No. of attorneys | approximately 450 |
| No. of employees | approximately 1000 |
| Major practice areas | General Practice |
| Revenue | $300 million USD (2008) |
| Date founded | 1933 |
| Founder | Haskell Cohn and Benjamin Levin |
| Company type | Professional corporation |
| Website | |
| www.mintz.com | |
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (commonly referred to as "Mintz Levin" or simply "Mintz") is a general practice, full service law firm employing approximately 450 attorneys worldwide. Mintz Levin's headquarters are located at One Financial Center in the Financial District of Boston. The firm also has offices in London, Los Angeles, New York City, Palo Alto, San Diego, Stamford, and Washington D.C., with a Liaison Office in Israel. It was founded in 1933 by Haskell Cohn and Benjamin Levin. The firm’s current Managing Member is Robert I. Bodian. The firm's major practice areas include Bankruptcy, Corporate & Securities, Employment, Environmental Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Public Finance, and Real Estate. In 2010, the firm was ranked in the top tier nationally for biotechnology law in U.S. News & World Report's law firm rankings.[1] In 2011, Chambers USA recognized 34 Mintz Levin attorneys as leaders in their fields, and the firm received national recognition for health care law and life sciences law.[2] Mintz Levin is the fifth largest law firm in Massachusetts by number of attorneys.[3]
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Mintz Levin was founded in 1933, in the midst of the great depression, by Benjamin Levin and Haskell Cohn, who first met as classmates at Harvard Law School. The firm began practicing under the name Mintz, Levin and Cohn after Herman Mintz became a legal collaborator in 1937, and then a partner in 1939.[4] After that, the firm grew steadily, adding additional partners starting with William M. Glovsky in 1965. In 1968, Robert Popeo became the first attorney to join as a partner. In 1979, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., began expanding, opening a secondary office in Washington, D.C., headed by Charles D. Ferris, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The new office focused primarily on federal regulation, legislation and litigation, with an emphasis on communications, the environment, health care, antitrust, and banking—areas that the firm would become known for in future years. After 2000, expansion became much more rapid, with Mintz Levin opening offices on the West Coast and the U.K., and a liaison office in Israel, in addition to its locations in the northeastern United States.
Best Lawyers and U.S. News & World Report ranked Mintz Levin among the top firms nationally and regionally in the first annual “Best Law Firms” list.[5] The firm was rated the 95th most prestigious U.S. law firm by Vault in 2010.[6] Mintz Levin received the American Bar Association’s 2010 Pro Bono Publico Award in recognition of the firm’s “outstanding commitment to volunteer legal services.”[7] They have received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index for four consecutive years starting in 2008.[8] Yale Law Women named Mintz Levin one of the nation’s Top-Ten Family Friendly Law Firms.[9] There are 43 Mintz Levin attorneys included in The Best Lawyers in America, 2012 Edition,[10] and 34 attorneys ranked as leaders in their fields by Chambers USA.[11]
Mintz Levin is well known for their extensive pro bono efforts and has received major awards for outstanding pro bono work. In 2009, the firm represented clients in more than 300 pro bono matters.
Although Mintz Levin’s attorneys represent a wide variety of nonprofit organizations and devote pro bono hours in the service of many different causes—such as human rights, civil rights, post-Hurricane Katrina legal assistance,[12][13] and nonprofit legal assistance—the firm is best known for its pro bono work on behalf of victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. In 1989, Mintz Levin established the Domestic Violence Project (DVP), which has since become its signature pro bono initiative. Hundreds of individual domestic violence and sexual assault victims have received representation through this program, which was expanded to include assisting with state and national legislative initiatives, drafting appellate and amicus efforts, and representing coalitions and related nonprofits. Mintz Levin also contributes staff time to community service on behalf of, and makes significant monetary donations to, a number of domestic violence and sexual assault causes.[14]
The firm has garnered awards and recognition from the American Bar Association (ABA), the Boston Bar Association, the Women’s Bar Association, the Ryka Rose Foundation, Jane Doe, and the Massachusetts Bar Association, among others. Of particular note, the ABA awarded the firm its 2010 Pro Bono Publico Award for its key efforts in securing passage of groundbreaking legislation in Massachusetts to allow victims of sexual assault, stalking, and harassment to obtain criminally enforceable protection.[15]