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Professor Colbert wins Outstanding Service Award from Minnesota Justice Foundation

Posted: September 6, 2022
Mitchell Hamline professor Brad Colbert ‘85 is one of six people being recognized by the Minnesota Justice Foundation. The organization is honoring Colbert with its Legal Services award for his years of work to increase access to justice for people impacted by incarceration. “For years, Brad has provided important direct services while inspiring countless students to …

Professor Colbert wins Outstanding Service Award from Minnesota Justice Foundation

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

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