Mintz Levin Attorney John B. Koss Appointed to Fenway Health Board of Directors
1/4/2012
Boston, MA – John B. Koss, an attorney in the Litigation Section at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., has been appointed to the Fenway Health Board of Directors. Fenway Health is the world’s largest center for LGBT health and research and provides comprehensive health care services to more than 19,000 patients in four Boston-area locations.
Mr. Koss will serve as one of 23 members of Fenway Health’s board, which includes Deborah A. Daccord, a Member in Mintz Levin’s Health Law Section. Mr. Koss will continue to serve on the Steering Committee for Fenway Health’s Young Leaders Council and its Board of Visitors.
Mr. Koss is a Practice Coordinator for and a founding member of Mintz Levin’s Electronic Discovery Practice Group and is also a member of the Product Liability and Complex Tort Litigation Practice Group. He serves as national e-discovery and trial strategy counsel for clients involved in serial litigation. In this role, he advises on information governance and e-discovery readiness and works with clients to design and execute company-wide and multi-national discovery plans. Working primarily with the firm’s biotechnology and cable clients, Mr. Koss assists trial teams throughout all phases of litigation with the coordination of national litigation strategy and the resolution of matters through mediation, arbitration, or trial. Mr. Koss is also a member of Mintz Levin’s Hiring and Diversity Committees. In 2011, Mr. Koss was named a Rising Star by Massachusetts Super Lawyers.
Mr. Koss is a part-time faculty member at Boston University School of Law, where he teaches in the Legal Writing Program. In 2011, he was appointed to the Massachusetts Bar Association task force to address law school graduates’ difficulty finding jobs in the struggling economy.
Mr. Koss received his B.A. from Northwestern University, his M.S. in Journalism from Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, and his J.D., cum laude, from Boston University School of Law.
For nearly forty years, Fenway Health has been working to make life healthier for the people in its neighborhood, the LGBT community, people living with HIV/AIDS and the broader population. The Fenway Institute at Fenway Health is an interdisciplinary center for research, training, education and policy development focusing on national and international health issues. Fenway’s Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center is dedicated to providing the best quality health care for youth and young adults ages 12 to 29 who may not feel comfortable going anywhere else. More about all of the organization’s programs and services can be found at www.fenwayhealth.org.
