The practitioners at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo have, over the course of several decades, developed from their
venerable Boston roots
a national litigation presence
bordering on the indomitable.
Extensively equipped to attend to a broad range of litigation
needs, the Mintz team is
recognized chiefly for
its involvement in the spheres of whitecollar, commercial, and product liability
matters.
Mintz’s Boston office,
easily indexable as the keystone of both its legacy and current practice, in no small part owes its vitality to
firm chairman
Robert
Popeo,
as well as litigation practice chair Scott
Ford.
In addition to having garnered over four decades of
recognition for his white-collar litigation might, Popeo is to thank for Mintz’s litigation practice itself,
having been credited as its
establishing partner.
He and
Ford are currently active in the role of
defense counsel to
the exiled former Saudi
dignitary and top counterterrorism official Saad bin Khalid Al Jabri, who currently resides in Canada, in
disputes in US federal and Canadian courts
with Sakab Saudi Holding Company.
Following allegations by Al Jabri that
Sakab, a subsidiary of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund under the control of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin
Salman (MBS), deployed Saudi agents to travel to Canada to murder Al Jabri in connection with
his extensive and intimateknowledge of the Kingdom’s royal family and inner workings,
own suit
alleging that
Al Jabri embezzled
billions of Saudi State funds during his tenure at the Ministry of the Interior.
Ford and Popeo have, so far, been successful in
obtaininga complete dismissal of the claims against Al Jabri, and currently argue
for the upholding of the decision on First Circuit appeal.
Also in Boston, insurance specialist
Nancy
Adams recently achieved
a critical appellate victory on behalf of The Netherlands Insurance Company
and Peerless Insurance in coverage litigation filed against Macomb School District, among those insured by Netherlands/Peerless,
who sought coverage under its policy’s errors and omissions policy in connection
with student sexual abuse incidents.
After filing suit against Macomb
seeking declaration
that a sexual misconduct exclusion barred coverage, Netherlands/Peerless was met with a federal district court decision ruling that
the policy’s exclusion was ambiguous, and Macomb was thusly
awarded $1.5 million
of coverage.
Adams, however, steadfastly obtained
a district court ruling reversing the prior decision on the behalf of Netherlands/Peerless. Other crucial Boston players include
founder and co-chair of the insurance practice
Kim
Marrkand, securities litigation co-chair Adam
Sisitsky,
and sports & entertainment co-chair
Keith
Carroll, among others.
At
Mintz’s New York office,
white-collar defense and government investigations co-chair
Peter
Chavkinis active in the role of counsel to
Morocco’s former Ambassador to the United States, Abdeslam Jaidi, in unprecedented and politically sensitive proceedings as to the prosecution of
federal charges of conspiracy to defraud the United Statesfaced byJaidi and members of his family.
The matter, arising in relation to claims
that the defendants made materially false statements
in visa applications
concerning the entrance of domestic workers into the US
over the course of several decades, raises numerous novel inquiries
into issues of diplomatic privilege and immunity.
