Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell Hamline Alumni

Class Notes

Adine Momoh ’09

Posted: December 7, 2023
Adine S. Momoh, an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, has been named a 2023 40 Under 40 by the American Bankruptcy Institute. The award honors 40 individuals under the age of 40 who demonstrate remarkable ability, leadership, and achievement in the bankruptcy and insolvency community. Class of 2009

Adine Momoh ’09

Aaron Lawrence ’21

Posted: December 7, 2023
Aaron Lawrence secured a settlement of greater than one million dollars on behalf of his injured client while in the second year of his practice as an attorney at Schmidt and Salita Law Team. Aaron was inducted into the Million Dollar Advocates Forum for successfully negotiating the large settlement on behalf of his client, a …

Aaron Lawrence ’21

Velma “Viki” Kimsal ’93

Posted: December 7, 2023
Velma “Viki” (Roth) Kimsal passed away peacefully on October 27, 2023, from multiple myeloma. Viki was born on March 10, 1943, in Dryden, Ontario. Her family lived in several Minnesota communities where her father served as a Lutheran pastor. Viki graduated from Gibbon (MN) high school in 1960 and went on to Valparaiso University majoring …

Velma “Viki” Kimsal ’93

Randall Seaver ’83

Posted: December 7, 2023
Moss & Barnett is pleased to announce that bankruptcy attorney Randall L. Seaver has joined the firm’s Litigation and Business Law practice areas. Randy has served on the Minnesota Chapter 7 panel since 1998 and the Minneapolis panel since 2003. During that time, he has served as trustee in over 15,000 cases and has been …

Randall Seaver ’83

Alum recognized for litigation work on NCAA cases

Posted: November 13, 2023
In October, the National Law Journal named Will Stute ’97 Winning Litigator of the Year out of 12 finalists. The publication cited two blockbuster trial wins for the NCAA that Stute secured. Another publication, American Lawyer, has also named Stute a finalist for National Litigator of the Year. The following is an article we wrote …

Alum recognized for litigation work on NCAA cases

Alum wins largest jury award ever in Minnesota

Posted: October 31, 2023
Michael Collyard ’00 won a jury verdict last year of nearly $564 million, the largest in Minnesota history, in part by zeroing in on evidence that wasn’t in court—millions of pages of destroyed documents. The result came in a case arising from one of the biggest financial scams in U.S. history and the largest in …

Alum wins largest jury award ever in Minnesota

Gloria Karsky `95

Posted: October 25, 2023
Gloria Karsky retired from full time practice as an in-house senior attorney with TCF Bank (now Huntington Bank) in 2015.  She currently works as a consultant and part time self employed attorney, as well as serving on the Board of Directors of Sunrise Bank, where she also serves as chairperson of the Board’s BSA/Compliance Committee.  …

Gloria Karsky `95

Judge J. Michael Bitney `85

Posted: October 25, 2023
Judge J. Michael Bitney retired on Sept.15th, 2023 after 37 yrs as a member of the WI Bar.  7 yrs in private practice; 20 yrs as Washburn Co. WI District Attorney; and the last 10 yrs as Barron Co. WI Circuit Court Judge.  He looks forward to spending more time with his wife, Nancy (Hooper) …

Judge J. Michael Bitney `85