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Minnesota Public Radio News featured Mitchell Hamline’s one-of-a-kind Expert Witness Training Academy, now in its sixth year, in a feature story that aired Thursday, Aug. 4, during MPR’s Morning Edition program. You can listen to the story on the MPR News website. The story, by MPR environmental reporter Elizabeth Dunbar, explored the academy’s efforts to …

MPR News profiles Mitchell Hamline’s Expert Witness Training Academy

Professor Sharon K. Sandeen has been appointed as the director of Mitchell Hamline’s Intellectual Property Institute. “Professor Sandeen is a recognized expert on U.S. and international trade secret law and a terrific educator, and we’re thrilled she’ll be leading the IP Institute into its 9th year and beyond,” said Mark Gordon, president and dean of …

Sharon Sandeen to lead Intellectual Property Institute

Through her work with the school’s Medical Legal Partnership, a Mitchell Hamline student recently prevented a vulnerable St. Paul woman from ending up homeless. Kaitlyn Stamson, who will be a third-year student in the fall, acted as an advocate for the client under the supervision of Mitchell Hamline faculty, filing government documents on her behalf …

Legal clinic student helps woman on edge of homelessness

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