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Haydock & Steenson: A half century of excellence

Posted: August 4, 2023
Roger Haydock and Mike Steenson laid the foundations for clinical education, law review The 2022-23 academic year marked the 50th anniversary of professors Roger Haydock and Mike Steenson at Mitchell Hamline. Haydock began at William Mitchell College of Law in 1970 as a part-time instructor, but it was in 1972 that he joined the faculty …

Haydock & Steenson: A half century of excellence

Jon Schmidt ’03 named to Minnesota Court of Appeals

Posted: July 24, 2023
Jon Schmidt ’03, a principal attorney at the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office and a former shareholder at Briggs and Morgan, was appointed Monday to the Minnesota Court of Appeals by Governor Tim Walz. Walz, in a statement, said Schmidt’s “nearly two decades of appellate practice has made him a respected expert in the field across …

Jon Schmidt ’03 named to Minnesota Court of Appeals

Professor Steenson receives honorary degree from Mitchell Hamline

Posted: May 30, 2023
Professor Mike Steenson received an honorary degree at Mitchell Hamline’s commencement on June 3. The law school’s board of trustees has approved the degree in recognition of his 50 years of service to Mitchell Hamline. “I’m now one of you,” exclaimed Steenson to the students before him. Steenson was 26 years old and fresh off …

Professor Steenson receives honorary degree from Mitchell Hamline

Mitchell Hamline 2023 Student Award of Merit winners named

Posted: May 15, 2023
Students (L-R) Marilys Solano, Jayashree Venkateswaran, and Michelle Furrer have been named 2023 Student Award of Merit winners.
Mitchell Hamline students Michelle Furrer, Marilys Solano, and Jayashree Venkateswaran have been named Student Award of Merit recipients for 2023. All three are part of the class of students that entered law school in August 2020 at the height of the COVID pandemic. Their studies were entirely online for their first year. The trio recently completed …

Mitchell Hamline 2023 Student Award of Merit winners named

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