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Privacy Champion: Alum works to protect clients and customers’ privacy

Posted: November 9, 2021
Elimu Kajunju ’05 counsels companies—including Google Health—on how to protect clients and customers’ privacy A job in privacy law is not for the faint of heart. The specialty is constantly changing yet plays an outsize role in the operation of companies’ products and services. That makes it the perfect career for Elimu Kajunju ’05, uniting …

Privacy Champion: Alum works to protect clients and customers’ privacy

Niedwiecki announces scholarship honoring Lena Smith, calls to reform bar exam in installation speech focused on access

Posted: September 16, 2021
“There are so many reasons I came to this school. Number one, and most important, is because I wanted to be at a school that committed itself to providing access and opportunity to those who otherwise would not have gotten a degree.”   As a gay, first-generation college student of modest means, Anthony Niedwiecki would …

Niedwiecki announces scholarship honoring Lena Smith, calls to reform bar exam in installation speech focused on access

A voice for change: Alum seeks to destigmatize criminality

Posted: September 14, 2021
Nadine Graves ’17 understands firsthand the collateral consequences of a criminal past. She had plans to become a nurse and worked as a nursing assistant until she was convicted for felony marijuana possession as a juvenile. “I was misled to believe that a “friend” was having soccer jerseys shipped to my house and it turned …

A voice for change: Alum seeks to destigmatize criminality

Five Mitchell Hamline alums honored with Minnesota Lawyer Diversity & Inclusion Awards

Posted: September 11, 2021
Five Mitchell Hamline alumni are among the 14 individuals and four organizations being recognized by Minnesota Lawyer for its 2021 Diversity & Inclusion awards. Recipients are being honored for “significantly advancing diversity, inclusion and the dignity of all people in Minnesota’s legal profession and in communities in which exceptional legal work impacts justice for all.” …

Five Mitchell Hamline alums honored with Minnesota Lawyer Diversity & Inclusion Awards

Alumni Association names three newest award winners

Posted: August 31, 2021
Two esteemed Minnesota judges and a solo practitioner whose pro bono work included helping start Mitchell Hamline’s Self Help Clinic are being honored with this year’s alumni awards from the Mitchell Hamline Alumni Association. Judge Leo Brisbois ’87 is receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award for his long tenure of public service and volunteer work. Judge …

Alumni Association names three newest award winners