A distinguished group of St. Paul lawyers incorporate the St. Paul College of Law, a Mitchell Hamline predecessor school, and launch a night law school program.<\/p>\n
United Charities of St. Paul establishes a legal clinic in cooperation with the St. Paul College of Law to train students in case work and trial preparation.<\/p>\n
Minneapolis College of Law, another Mitchell Hamline predecessor school, is the only U.S. law school offering a four-year course in court practice.<\/p>\n
William Mitchell College of Law, a Mitchell Hamline predecessor school, begins offering a Seminar on Legal Writing and a Legal Drafting course.<\/p>\n
William Mitchell offers elective skills courses, such as the Poverty Law Seminar and the Trial Advocacy Seminar.<\/p>\n
Rosalie Wahl \u201967 and Professor Roger S. Haydock develop and lead William Mitchell\u2019s new law clinic program, one of the first in the nation. <\/strong>The clinical program eventually becomes among the top-ranked in the nation.<\/p>\n Professor Roger Haydock, with the advice and consent of Dean Doug Heidenreich \u201961, buys a reel-to-reel video machine and proceeds to make short, taped lawyering skills examples for his clinic class. He also begins to videotape students\u2019 skills exercise performances and use the tape for instant feedback.<\/p>\n William Mitchell’s faculty revise and expand the skills curriculum to better prepare students for clinical fieldwork with clients, making Trial Advocacy and other simulation courses prerequisites for enrolling in a clinic.<\/strong><\/p>\n Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners (LAMP) clinic launches at William Mitchell.<\/p>\n Professor Dick Oakes begins the Criminal Defense Clinic at Hamline University School of Law, a Mitchell Hamline predecessor school.<\/p>\n William Mitchell\u2019s Trial Advocacy course wins the national Emil Gumpert Award for Excellence in Teaching Advocacy from the American College of Trial Lawyers.<\/p>\n Hamline begins the Public Interest Advocacy Clinic.<\/p>\n William Mitchell Professors John Sonsteng and Roger Haydock create and lead the Legal Practicum Program where students work as a four-person law firm handling a series of simulated cases under the guidance of full-time faculty members and tutors.<\/p>\n Hamline Law’s director of the Lawyering Skills Program proposes a plan for a progressive sequencing of skills courses throughout the curriculum in the areas of litigation practice, public interest advocacy, general law office practice, and corporate and commercial law practice.<\/p>\n Professor Angela McCaffrey is hired to direct\u00a0Hamline Law’s\u00a0clinical program.<\/p>\n Hamline Law becomes one of six law schools to participate in an program to integrate dispute resolution throughout the law school curriculum.<\/p>\n Professor Jim Coben launches the Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic at Hamline Law, the first clinic in the country to represent parties in mediation.<\/p>\n The Child Advocacy Clinic at Hamline Law launches,\u00a0the only clinic in the country to represent the best interests of children in Indian Child Welfare cases.<\/p>\n The \u201cLawyering\u201d skills course is added at William Mitchell,\u00a0created by combining aspects of Trial Advocacy and Civil Practice.\u00a0Classroom instruction and small group simulation exercises introduce students to the skills needed to interview and counsel clients, to negotiate, and to work as advocates in court and administrative settings.<\/p>\n Hamline Law launches the Health Law Clinic.<\/p>\n The Innocence Project of Minnesota, a nonprofit organization devoted to investigating claims of actual innocence, is founded at Hamline University, creating an Innocence Clinic for law students to work on actual innocence cases.<\/p>\n William Mitchell faculty again rethink and redesign the required skills curriculum in order to send graduates into practice with exposure to the basics of client representation and advocacy. The first-year course, Writing and Representation: Advice and Persuasion (WRAP), and second- or third-year Advocacy course are phased in. Interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and mediation are now taught in the first year alongside the research and writing course. The upper-level required course, Advocacy, again focuses on the skills of persuading others to act in a client\u2019s interest, whether through litigation or alternative means.<\/p>\n The Dispute Resolution Institute at Hamline Law creates the Problem-Solving and Advocacy Certificate, giving students the opportunity to demonstrate competence in a range of traditional and alternative forms.<\/p>\n The Re-Entry Clinic, serving women leaving the state women\u2019s prison in Shakopee, Minnesota, and the Intellectual Property Clinic\u00a0launch at William Mitchell.<\/p>\n Hamline Law creates Practice, Problem-Solving and Professionalism, a foundational skills course designed to introduce students to the many problem-solving roles that lawyers assume in society.<\/p>\n The Child Protection Clinic launches at William Mitchell.<\/p>\n Hamline Law approves the Hamline Experiential Progression, which links entry level, exploratory, and advanced instruction in three key ares of practical lawyering: problem-solving, advocacy, and transactional planning throughout students’ first, second, and third years.<\/p>\n William Mitchell and Hamline Law combine to form Mitchell Hamline School of Law, with a commitment to experiential education stronger than ever. 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