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Mitchell Hamline launches multi-pronged effort to safeguard children’s well-being Children and families face increasing challenges in our legal systems. These include separation in the foster care system due to physical and sexual abuse and neglect, overrepresentation of minority children in the child welfare and criminal justice systems, and difficulty accessing legal and community services necessary …

Institute for Children, Families, and Communities to focus on child protection, abuse prevention

A series of community conversations put on with help from Mitchell Hamline’s Dispute Resolution Institute (DRI) has been honored by a statewide local government organization. The League of Minnesota Cities honored Falcon Heights with a 2018 City of Excellence Award for its Policing and Inclusion Community Initiative. The effort was in response to the shooting of …

Project assisted by Dispute Resolution Institute honored by League of Minnesota Cities

The board of trustees of Mitchell Hamline School of Law added three new members and installed new board leadership as of July 1. The addition of the three trustees, all alumni, brings the total number of board members to 32. Brian Batzli ’85 is senior vice president, shareholder, and chairman emeritus at Merchant & Gould, …

Mitchell Hamline board of trustees welcomes three new members

Well-known Minneapolis attorney Clifford Greene will bring four decades of courtroom experience to the classroom when he joins the Mitchell Hamline faculty as a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence. Greene, who co-founded the Minneapolis law firm Greene Espel PLLP 25 years ago, will teach civil procedure when the fall semester begins in August. “I always dreamed …

Prominent Twin Cities attorney Clifford Greene to join Mitchell Hamline faculty

Two students at Mitchell Hamline are getting valuable hands-on experience in the courtroom this summer through judicial internships. Sheila Francois and Stephanie Lucero, who both start their third year of law school this fall, are the first Mitchell Hamline students to be chosen for the Fulton & Waite Scholars program. Francois’ internship is with Judge …

Students get courtroom experience through flexible summer internship program