Heading_Home_v3_1-4 Doing Well to Do Good

mintz

pro bono portfolio

2023

Collaborating to Improve Lives and Communities

Pro bono service is at the heart of Mintz's culture and identity. Together, we provide individuals with life-changing assistance and support the nonprofit organizations that care for our communities.

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Doing Well to Do Good

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Pro Bono Portfolio

Mintz has a culture of giving back to the community and being a good corporate citizen. When asked by one of our clients to consider taking on this endeavor, I realized that we had the capabilities, we could make the time, we had the resources, and this is exactly the kind of thing that Mintz does and can do well. The Commonwealth needed to preserve these pieces of real estate as affordable emergency housing because resources for the homeless in our Commonwealth are swamped, and the last thing we wanted to do was to have 125 people left homeless again if our efforts failed.

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Rebecca A. Lee

Pro Bono Team

Rebecca A. Lee

Member

Listen as Pro Bono Committee Chair Susan Finegan sits down with Rebecca to discuss the story, the challenges, and the impact of the work that she completed for Heading Home.

In 2022, Casa Nueva Vida was facing financial distress and potential collapse, as well as the possible loss of its four emergency shelter properties in Boston and Lawrence, Massachusetts. Heading Home, the largest provider of emergency housing in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, was asked by state officials to consider taking over stewardship of three active and one inactive transitional housing and emergency shelters that were home to approximately 125 residents. Mintz, under the

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Casa Nueva Vida

Heading Home

leadership of attorney Rebecca Lee, was asked to help Heading Home acquire the three occupied properties and an additional vacant property in a highly complicated transaction that included a nonprofit organization slated to dissolve, the oversight of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, and related real estate and corporate complexities, including the transition of employees to Heading Home.

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smriti choudhury

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jean curran

Legal Specialist

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