Career Paths in Public Interest – Panel & Reception
Monday, October 24, 2016, 4:30 – 6:30pm, Room 25 & Dorsey Foyer at the University of Minnesota Law School
Are you a 1L, 2L, or 3L interested in public service? Are you looking for summer work, volunteer opportunities, or a career path? Come hear from a panel of attorneys in public interest work, including public defense, legal aid, government, environmental, and immigration. Stay for a networking event with local nonprofit and government employers and bar associations. This event is hosted by the three local law schools, the University of Minnesota Law School, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, and the University of St. Thomas School of Law, and the Minnesota Justice Foundation.
Panelists include:
- Josh Ogunleye, Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Family Law Unit
- Randall Cohn, Hennepin County Public Defender’s Office
- Hudson Kingston, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
- Julia Zwak, Judicial Law Clerk for Judge Donovan Frank, US District Court
- TBA, Immigration Law
Please RSVP to careers@mitchellhamline.edu by Friday, October 14.
CLE: The Criminalization of Poverty – Students Welcome!
Wednesday, October 26 from 11:45am – 1:30pm; MN CLE Conference Center in Minneapolis
As court systems and municipalities throughout the country have increased fines and penalties for low level criminal offenses, low income people often find themselves suffering consequences far beyond the criminal justice system. Please join us for a discussion about the high price of being poor and ways pro bono lawyers can help low income clients find their way out of the criminalization trap. Keynote speaker: Nusrat Choudhury, staff attorney with the ACLU Racial Justice Project in New York.
Free for law students. Register online
CLE: Can Private Practice Be in the Public Interest? – Students Welcome!
Date: Friday, October 28, 2016
Time: 6 to 7 p.m.
Location: Mitchell Hamline School of Law Conservatory
If you are an attorney or law student who wishes to serve the common good as well as the interests of private clients, what are your options? How do the profession and society define public interest law practice? Does public interest practice include lawyers who charge fees? Or is it mostly pro bono service and non-profit and government practice? Explore these questions and other current issues in public service—including its ethical boundaries–during a panel discussion with 3 distinguished attorneys in private practice.
Panelists include:
- Shauna Coons ‘07, Associate Attorney at HoganAdams who serves tribal clients;
- Paula Duthoy ‘90, solo practitioner focusing on immigration, including asylum and VAWA cases
- Heather Gilbert ‘12, President of Gilbert Law PLLC who represents deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind clients in plaintiffs’ civil rights matters.
This one-hour CLE, sponsored by Mitchell Hamline School of Law and MJF, will be followed by dancing to The Patience Band and spoken word performances to benefit the Angie McCaffrey Public Interest Scholarship Fund. A free will donation is requested.
RSVP online by Monday, October 24th. Please contact Professors Marie Failinger or Ann Juergens for more information.