Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Pro Bono Committee Selects Mintz Levin To Receive Adams Award
6/6/2005
Immigration Attorneys Susan Cohen and Grant Sovern Given Special Recognition
Boston, MA ? The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services has selected Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. as one of three recipients of the John & John Quincy Adams Award, with special recognition to Susan J. Cohen and Grant S. Sovern, for their work on behalf of the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project. Justice Spina will present the award at an awards ceremony on June 8, 2005 in the main courtroom of the Supreme Judicial Court in the newly renovated Adams Courthouse.
Regarded as the most prestigious pro bono award given in Massachusetts, the John & John Quincy Adams Award identifies and honors individual lawyers, small and large law firms, government attorney offices, corporate law departments and other institutions in the legal profession that have enhanced the human dignity of others by improving or delivering volunteer legal services to the Commonwealth's poor and disadvantaged. This is the first time that the Committee has given an award for immigration work.
Ms. Cohen and Mr. Sovern are members in the firm's Boston office, where they practice in the Immigration Section. Ms. Cohen manages Mintz Levin's Immigration Section, which she developed. She has won awards for her political asylum work, both from the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project and from Mintz Levin. In 1999, Mr. Sovern won Mintz Levin's Pro Bono Award for his work in the area of asylum law and coordinating pro bono efforts at the firm.
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC is a multidisciplinary law firm with over 450 attorneys and senior professionals in Boston, Washington D.C., Reston, VA, New York, Stamford, CT, Los Angeles and London.
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