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A group of Mitchell Hamline students filed a legal brief in a patent case taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court in June, giving them a type of real-world experience available to only a handful of law students across the country. The students were uniquely qualified to provide information to the court because of the …

Students draw on rare documents for U.S. Supreme Court filing

The Board of Trustees at Mitchell Hamline School of Law is welcoming four incoming members. They joined the board July 1. Gregory L. Buck ’87 is president of Productivity Inc. in Plymouth, Minn., the leading distributor of machine tools and tooling accessories in the Midwest. Buck has been with Productivity since 1981, starting as controller. …

Mitchell Hamline welcomes new members to its Board of Trustees

Gov. Mark Dayton has appointed a Mitchell Hamline alum to the state’s highest court. Judge Anne McKeig ’92, a descendant of White Earth Nation, will be the first American Indian on the Minnesota Supreme Court. McKeig earned her J.D. in 1992 from Hamline University School of Law, one of Mitchell Hamline’s predecessor schools. She has …

Mitchell Hamline alum appointed to Minnesota Supreme Court

Mitchell Hamline program spotlighted in story about online legal education Mitchell Hamline is among the law schools adopting “innovative new ways of delivering legal education,” Elizabeth Olson writes in the June 23 edition of the New York Times. The story, titled “Law Schools Are Going Online to Reach New Students” and included as part of …

New York Times features Hybrid Program as educational innovation

A group of students in Mitchell Hamline’s Hybrid Program have thrown their support behind a scholarship to assist future students, even before they’ve graduated. The scholarship is named for George Vaughn. Born the son of former slaves in Kentucky, Vaughn earned a J.D. by attending night classes at Walden University in Nashville, Tenn., before joining …

Students in Hybrid Program create new scholarship