{"id":385,"date":"2016-01-22T15:35:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T21:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/?p=385"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T21:57:54","slug":"remembering-bill-orth-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/2016\/01\/22\/remembering-bill-orth-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Bill Orth \u201980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Hamline alum and Minneapolis attorney <strong>Bill Orth \u201980<\/strong>, passed away on Dec. 12, 2015, at his home in St. Paul.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/obituary-crusading-attorney-william-orth-had-unconventional-path-to-law\/365841951\/\" target=\"_blank\">An obituary in the Star Tribune<\/a>\u00a0remembers Orth as a \u201ccrusading\u201d attorney, who gave back as a volunteer, both in the Twin Cities and elsewhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it was seeing a case to the end, helping build a school for AIDS orphans in Tanzania, serving as an extra in an opera production or busing junior high school kids to see an R-rated movie, friends and family members said Orth dove into his passions with stubborn dedication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orth graduated from William Mitchell College of Law in 1980, and was honored with the school\u2019s Ronald E. Hachey Outstanding Alumni Award in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Classmate <strong>Ray Peterson \u201880<\/strong> praised Orth as the kind of lawyer others should aspire to be.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBill has always been one to put the person ahead of everything else,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cHis relationships with his clients, his relationships with other people, and I just respect the way he keeps people in the front of what he does.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"panel panel-hybrid\"><header class=\"panel-header\"><h2 class=\"panel-title\">Video<\/h2><\/header><div class=\"panel-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"panel-content\"><p>Bill Orth '80 was featured in this William Mitchell School of Law video in 2011. <\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"panel-embed\"><div class=\"embed-container\"><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" name=\"fd6ec192c\" width=\"1000px\" height=\"1000px\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"fb:video Facebook Social Plugin\" src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/v2.3\/plugins\/video.php?allowfullscreen=true&amp;app_id=&amp;channel=http%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D42%23cb%3Df1696622b8%26domain%3Dmitchellhamline.edu%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fmitchellhamline.edu%252Ff2a183e254%26relation%3Dparent.parent&amp;container_width=500&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fmitchellhamline.edu%2FMitchellHamlineSchoolofLaw%2Fvideos%2Fvb.82415250374%2F574326769171%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;locale=en_US&amp;sdk=joey\" style=\"border: none; visibility: visible;\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- .panel -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Hamline alum and Minneapolis attorney Bill Orth \u201980, passed away on Dec. 12, 2015, at his home in St. Paul. An obituary in the Star Tribune\u00a0remembers Orth as a \u201ccrusading\u201d attorney, who gave back as a volunteer, both in the Twin Cities and elsewhere in the world. \u201cWhether it was seeing a case to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/2016\/01\/22\/remembering-bill-orth-80\/\" class=\"more-link\">Remembering Bill Orth \u201980<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alumni-spotlight","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}