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Mitchell Hamline welcomes record number of Native students

Posted: October 11, 2021
“Seeing these Native 1Ls is a sign that we are still here and are thriving in spite of what was done to us.” Weston Jones chose to attend Mitchell Hamline because it occupies his people’s traditional lands. A member of the Oglala Lakota Nation who grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South …

Mitchell Hamline welcomes record number of Native students

“Class Action Park” – Mitchell Hamline students learn legal lessons from nation’s most dangerous amusement park

Posted: September 30, 2021
There might be no truer fit to the phrase “a lawsuit waiting to happen” than a now-defunct amusement park in New Jersey called Action Park. During its heyday in the 1980s and 90s, there were countless injuries and even a few deaths on the various rides and attractions. From the litigation spurred by the park’s …

“Class Action Park” – Mitchell Hamline students learn legal lessons from nation’s most dangerous amusement park

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