Mitchell Hamline School of Law enjoys an alumni base of more than 20,000 people! Our alumni are eager to help future graduates. One way they give their time to students is through our mentorship program.
We’ve redesigned the mentorship program to achieve specific goals for students based on their year in law school. The program continues to offer orientation and kick-off events in the fall and spring semesters respectively, but will offer more robust experiences throughout the academic year so students can achieve the program’s goals. To learn more about each program, read below. To sign up to mentor, visit our Alumni Directory and Community.
Mentors volunteering in the first year program will help teach first-year students how to be students of the law. You’ll work with students through programmatic in-class, on-campus, or off-campus activities. Please note many of the activities in the first year mentorship program will take place in the spring semester as part of a new required course titled Foundations of Practice, though availability during class time is not a requirement in order to participate in the program. Through this course and the first year mentorship program, mentors will participate in career panels, networking, informational interviews, career path discussions, and a menu of other possible activities.
Anticipated Time Commitment: One to two hours per month.
Mentors volunteering in the second year program will have opportunities to help students engage in the profession by providing a job shadow, speaking to students about ethics, attending a bar association event with your mentee, and suggested other activities.
Anticipated Time Commitment: One to two hours per month.
Mentors volunteering in the third year or fourth year program will have opportunities to help students transition to practice. In this program, mentors will have the chance to share their experience in finding and keeping clients, share how they studied for and passed the bar exam, teach students about the business of practicing law, as well as participate in options from a menu of other activities.
Anticipated Time Commitment: One to two hours per month.
If you want to mentor hybrid or executive J.D. students, you will have similar opportunities as above, but with additional specialized opportunities that recognize their career and educational paths.
Anticipated Time Commitment: One to two hours per month.
Contacts for Mitchell Hamline's Mentoring Programs
