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Mitchell Hamline’s Institute to Transform Child Protection celebrates wins at Minnesota Capitol

Posted: September 17, 2023
Jamie Becker-Finn ’11 grew up on the Leech Lake reservation, an impoverished community in northern Minnesota where she has seen first-hand what poverty, discrimination, and an inequitable justice system can do to families and children. And when those families can’t afford legal representation to argue on their behalf, things get even more complicated. In some …

Mitchell Hamline’s Institute to Transform Child Protection celebrates wins at Minnesota Capitol

From ‘ungovernable’ to champion, Watkins informed by own youth on child protection matters

Posted: September 7, 2023
Alisha Watkins ’20 is always looking for ways the child protection system can better reflect the reality of families’ situations. While laws and practices are designed to consider biological parents in a situation, Watkins says relatives and other kin who could be called upon to care for youth in emergency situations often struggle to learn …

From ‘ungovernable’ to champion, Watkins informed by own youth on child protection matters

Hannah Burton named Outstanding Clinic Student for work in child protection clinic

Posted: June 2, 2022
Mitchell Hamline student Hannah Burton has won an Outstanding Clinic Student award from the Clinical Legal Education Association. Burton worked extensively with Mitchell Hamline’s Child Protection Clinic during her 2L year. There, she represented a parent in a case seeking to reestablish parental rights. She also testified before Minnesota lawmakers on legislation to eliminate the presumption …

Hannah Burton named Outstanding Clinic Student for work in child protection clinic

Mitchell Hamline debuts wellness center

Posted: May 4, 2022
In a continued effort to meet the needs of students, faculty, and staff, leaders at Mitchell Hamline on Monday cut the ribbon on a new wellness center. “Law school for students and faculty and staff is necessarily and sometimes unnecessarily stressful,” said Professor Natalie Netzel ’15. “This is an investment for our people to be …

Mitchell Hamline debuts wellness center

Kate Kruse, Natalie Netzel named co-directors of Mitchell Hamline clinics

Posted: April 19, 2022
When Natalie Netzel was deciding which law school to attend, she kept coming back to the school that promised her “practical wisdom” that would make her ready to practice when she graduated. A large part of the pull was the clinical education that would give her real-world legal experience while still in law school. Ten …

Kate Kruse, Natalie Netzel named co-directors of Mitchell Hamline clinics