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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

After 30 year career in Army, Mitchell Hamline student excited for second career in the law

Posted: December 11, 2023
During her 30 years in the Army, Karen Hanson often looked for online law school programs but never could find any. When she retired in 2020, she was accepted into an Executive Leadership Ph.D. program and discovered law schools were now offering online options. Then, she found Mitchell Hamline—the first ABA-approved law school to offer a substantially …

After 30 year career in Army, Mitchell Hamline student excited for second career in the law

The Oath: Judge Donovan Frank ’77 and his naturalization house calls

Posted: November 30, 2023
Zhengfang Liu lived in the United States for 20 years before becoming a citizen last year. But because of the 82-year old’s declining health, including four hospitalizations and a cardiac arrest in the past year, Liu couldn’t attend a naturalization ceremony in person. So the ceremony went to her, in the person of U.S. District …

The Oath: Judge Donovan Frank ’77 and his naturalization house calls

University leader in Kosovo visits Mitchell Hamline to explore collaboration

Posted: November 28, 2023
Mitchell Hamline hosted Dr. Agron Bajraktari, rector of the University of Applied Sciences in Ferizaj, Kosovo, earlier this semester as a next step toward establishing a possible collaboration between the schools. “I think it’s very important to have this connection,” said Bajraktari, in an interview. “We want to learn the best practices from your law …

University leader in Kosovo visits Mitchell Hamline to explore collaboration