Mintz Levin Awards First Paul Poth Scholars Awards
4/22/2011
Boston, MA – During the annual Victim Rights event sponsored by the Massachusetts Office of Victim Assistance at the Massachusetts State House, representatives from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., awarded the first annual Mintz Levin/Paul Poth Scholars Awards.
The awards, in memory of Paul Poth, an attorney at Mintz Levin who passed away in 2009, recognize individuals who like Mr. Poth, work with crime victims. The three recipients of the awards receive full tuition scholarships to the Massachusetts Victim Assistance Academy, a week-long, nationally recognized training program sponsored by the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance (MOVA).
Scholarship recipients were selected based on their demonstrated commitment, through their personal, civic and/or professional activities, to “furthering the ideals espoused by Paul Poth in his career as an attorney in private practice, as an Assistant District Attorney, and through his daily life and service to the Victim Services Community.”
This year’s scholarship recipients included individuals from the Elizabeth Stone House, New Hope, Inc., and Fenway Community Health.
Prior to joining Mintz Levin as an associate in 2000, Mr. Poth was the Assistant Suffolk District Attorney. He was widely recognized for his work on teen prostitution, including by the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the Neighborhood Crime Watch unit of the Boston Police Department, and the Bay Village Neighborhood Association.
Prior to his death of hepatobiliary duct cancer at age 39, Mr. Poth founded TargetCancer, an organization dedicated to funding and directing research to underfunded cancers.
