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Rick Petry ’98 receives 2024 CLEO Edge Award

Posted: April 9, 2024
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Our very own, Rick Petry, is being presented with a 2024 Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) EDGE Award as the education honoree. Petry is one of four in the nation being recognized on April 11, in Washington DC at the law offices of Greenberg Trauig, for their significant accomplishments or commitments to education, diversity, …

Rick Petry ’98 receives 2024 CLEO Edge Award

Judge JaPaul Harris ’03 appointed to Minnesota Court of Appeals

Posted: January 31, 2024
JaPaul Harris ’03, a district court judge in Ramsey County, was named Wednesday to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. He will replace Judge Jeffrey Bryan, who recently became a federal judge in Minnesota. The appointment, announced by the office of Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, will bring to seven the number of …

Judge JaPaul Harris ’03 appointed to Minnesota Court of Appeals

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

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