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Recent Mitchell Hamline graduate Jessica Merkel ’18 is profiled in the January issue of Attorney at Law Magazine. Merkel was one of 46 Mitchell Hamline students to receive their degrees during winter commencement on Jan. 7. She was also one of what turned out to be a total of 16 graduates who were the first …

New graduate Jessica Merkel ’18 profiled in Attorney at Law Magazine

The Star Tribune featured Mitchell Hamline’s Hybrid J.D. program, and the accomplishments of some of its first graduates, in the newspaper’s Jan. 8 edition. The story includes interviews with Mitchell Hamline President and Dean Mark Gordon and Professor Mike Steenson. It also takes a look at the experiences of Briana Al Taqatqa ’18 and Brian …

Media take note of Hybrid J.D. program

By Maja Beckstrom When Professor R. Carl Moy heads to an undergraduate career fair at the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering, he brings his graphs. “Engineers love graphs,” explained Moy, associate director of Mitchell Hamline’s Intellectual Property Institute. First, he pops up a slide showing lifetime median earnings for graduates with science …

Schwegman gift helps increase pool of patent-eligible students

By Dick Dahl When baby boomers were young, many of them built their lives around the unholy trinity of “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.” Now that the boomers have grown gray and begun to shuffle off this mortal coil, Minneapolis entertainment lawyer  suggests perhaps the old incantation deserves an update: “Occasional sex, prescription drugs, …

Entertainment lawyer Ken Abdo ’82 finds a new niche: Estate-planning for aging rockers

Salima Oines Khakoo ’02 (HUSL) is CEO and managing attorney of American Dream Law LLC and works with community organizations to ensure the provision of immigration-law services to working-class families. Born in Tanzania and raised in New York City, she teaches at Mitchell Hamline and lives in St. Paul’s Hamline-Midway neighborhood with her husband, Eric, …

A Life in the Law: Practicing immigration law as an act of patriotism