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Jon Geffen

Mitchell Hamline to host conference on new criminal-justice laws in Minnesota

Posted: November 14, 2023
Mitchell Hamline will host a full-day conference, presented by the Legal Revolution, on November 30 to discuss the many new laws passed in Minnesota this year that relate to criminal justice reform and how they’ll reshape the landscape. The in-person CLE (7.0 standard credits pending) will feature community, legal, and legislative subject matter experts, including …

Mitchell Hamline to host conference on new criminal-justice laws in Minnesota

First student to attend law school from prison will attend Mitchell Hamline

Posted: June 13, 2022
Mitchell Hamline School of Law and All Square partner in Prison to Law Pipeline program Mitchell Hamline School of Law will welcome Maureen Onyelobi into its juris doctor program this fall, making Mitchell Hamline the first ABA-approved law school in the country to educate currently incarcerated individuals. It’s a moment nearly three years in the …

First student to attend law school from prison will attend Mitchell Hamline

New journal article details dash to create unique COVID-19 clinic at pandemic’s start

Posted: January 14, 2022
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down business, schools, and much of regular life in the spring of 2020, several clinical faculty members at Mitchell Hamline were soon thinking about the collateral consequences of those shutdowns: Visitations in the child welfare system would be disrupted; undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families would need help accessing some of …

New journal article details dash to create unique COVID-19 clinic at pandemic’s start

Dean Niedwiecki proctors LSAT at two Minnesota prisons

Posted: April 19, 2021
School explores offering legal education for incarcerated people Mitchell Hamline President and Dean Anthony Niedwiecki has proctored many exams in his life but never behind bars. When he administered the LSAT in two Minnesota correctional facilities earlier this month (Apr. 10 and 11), it was believed to be the first time that has happened inside …

Dean Niedwiecki proctors LSAT at two Minnesota prisons

Mitchell Hamline student Laura Sweeney named semifinalist for Law Student of the Year

Posted: March 24, 2021
Mitchell Hamline student Laura Sweeney has been named a semifinalist for Law Student of the Year by National Jurist magazine. The publication took nominations from across the country and named one student of the year and six semifinalists; honorees are featured in the Spring 2021 issue. Sweeney, a 3L who will soon graduate from Mitchell …

Mitchell Hamline student Laura Sweeney named semifinalist for Law Student of the Year