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Alum couple opens law-themed coffee shop

Posted: July 5, 2022
A married couple who both attended Mitchell Hamline recently opened what they believe might be the first law-themed coffee shop in the country. Using the Spanish word for “lawyers,” Abogados Café sits below the law office Inti Martinez-Alemán ’16 and Ofelia Ponce ’19 run in the Como Park neighborhood of St. Paul. The idea for …

Alum couple opens law-themed coffee shop

Eliminating inequities, one deed at a time

Posted: June 1, 2022
Maria Cisneros ‘14 was shocked to learn her home in the Twin Cities suburb of Golden Valley, not far from where she grew up, had a racially restrictive covenant on its records. It meant her husband, who is from Venezuela, and her family would not have been able to buy the home if that language …

Eliminating inequities, one deed at a time

Justice Tomljanovich ’55 honored at Women in Law celebration

Posted: May 19, 2022
In 2000, when William Mitchell College of Law was celebrating its 100th anniversary, former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Esther Tomljanovich ’55 was asked how the school could bring that history into the present. She suggested restarting the tea, an event from her time as a law student and young lawyer when women weren’t allowed in …

Justice Tomljanovich ’55 honored at Women in Law celebration

For Judge Richelle Wahi ’03, equity work is path towards true justice

Posted: May 6, 2022
When Judge Richelle Wahi ’03 presides at the Dakota County Courthouse in Hastings, Minnesota, she explains to parties why she doesn’t always make eye contact. “It’s important that people feel seen and heard.” Wahi experienced hearing loss later in life, so she reads from a court reporter’s real-time transcription on a screen in front of …

For Judge Richelle Wahi ’03, equity work is path towards true justice