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DRI launches ‘Skills Lab’ to enhance teaching of dispute-resolution skills

Posted: February 7, 2024
Mitchell Hamline’s Dispute Resolution Institute is now offering a free resource for educators aimed at advancing the teaching of dispute-resolution and related skills. DRI Director Sharon Press announced on Feb. 6 the launch of the Laboratory for Advancing Dispute Resolution Skills Teaching–or DRI Skills Lab for short. “The Skills Lab’s mission is to enhance the …

DRI launches ‘Skills Lab’ to enhance teaching of dispute-resolution skills

Student helps win unemployment benefits for client who was fired

Posted: January 16, 2024
Mitchell Hamline student Kendra Luke had observed and even sat second chair at several court hearings during her time in law school. But she recently took her first lead on a case and won. At issue was whether her client—a 17-year warehouse employee at a major corporation in Minnesota—had done anything to disqualify himself from …

Student helps win unemployment benefits for client who was fired

Mitchell Hamline professor and alums honored with Attorney of the Year awards

Posted: January 11, 2024
Mitchell Hamline Professor Ana Pottratz Acosta was part of a team of immigration attorneys that worked to pass legislation to allow Minnesotans to obtain drivers licenses, regardless of their immigration status. The effort was 20 years in the making and was one of the groups recently recognized by Minnesota Lawyer’s 2023 Attorneys of the Year …

Mitchell Hamline professor and alums honored with Attorney of the Year awards

Mitchell Hamline wellness efforts featured in preLaw Magazine

Posted: January 10, 2024
Mitchell Hamline’s efforts around the wellness of its students—including the 2022 opening of a wellness center on the first floor of the law school’s campus building—were featured in the Winter 2024 issue of preLaw magazine. Writer Trevor Mason noted in an article entitled “It’s OK to not be OK” that law schools are “now doing …

Mitchell Hamline wellness efforts featured in preLaw Magazine