A leader in practical, individualized legal education
Mitchell Hamline’s strength in practical training, specialty areas of law, and part-time offerings are well known and ranked nationwide. We make these strengths available to students on our St. Paul, Minnesota campus and to our blended learning students wherever they are in life or on the map.
Dispute Resolution
Dispute resolution is at the core of our curriculum because it teaches identification of interests, mutual understanding, creative problem solving, and artful negotiation.
Consistently ranked in the top dispute resolution programs by US News
Practical Training
We teach through skills courses and simulation exercises that mirror real-world situations, and through actual hands-on experience with real clients.
US News top 100 in both Clinical Training and Legal Writing
Health Law
Our Health Law Institute serves as a hub in the health law world for law students, attorneys, health care practitioners, and business professionals. The top-ranked health law program in Minnesota.
Alumni in leadership roles at the biggest names in health care
Intellectual Property
Robust IP curriculum taught by faculty experts recognized around the world. Our students benefit from access to some of the world’s leading innovators headquartered locally.
US News top 100 for intellectual property law.
Family Law and Child Protection
Serving families in need. The practice of family law varies widely—from dealing with multimillion dollar divorce, to international adoption, or child welfare. A balance of knowledge and compassion is essential in these areas, and Mitchell Hamline has a history of training attorneys for successful careers in every aspect of family law.
preLaw Magazine top school for family law
Additional recognition
- #3 in College Gazette’s “10 Prominent Law Schools on the Rise,” saying our clinic program makes us “truly remarkable.”
- Mitchell Hamline was one of 19 law schools whose incoming class in 2019 showed an increase in LSAT and GPA measures at the median, 25th percentile, and 75th percentile levels. (Spivey Consulting)
preLaw Top Law School for Business Law- Blended-learning students Briana Al Taqatqa ’18 and Brian Kennedy ’18 won the 2017 International Negotiation Competition for Law Students in Oslo, Norway.
- One of 10 law schools nationally to receive a 2018 Education, Diversity, and Greater Equality (EDGE) Award from the Council on Legal Education Opportunity.
- Mitchell Hamline has been named best law school, best non-association provider of CLEs, the best in alumni relations by Minnesota Lawyer readers.
A leader in part-time legal education
Study partially online or on campus in our nationally ranked part-time program
Spending just a few weeks per year on campus, you can study the law at Mitchell Hamline. And you can do it from anywhere in the world. Our four-year, part-time program has enrollment options for students living outside the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area and part-time day and evening on-campus options.
Part Time, Blended
Keep your job. Study at Mitchell Hamline from your hometown.
- on campus twice per semester in the first four semesters
- intensive, case-study workshops
- 9–11 credits per semester
- work full time (per ABA policy)
- sit for the bar in every state—including New York
Part Time, On Campus
Continue working while you earn your J.D.
- Monday–Thursday day or evening
- three classes per semester
- 9–11 credits per semester
- work full time (per ABA policy)
- most complete the degree in four years
- able to take online electives