{"id":11587,"date":"2016-11-28T16:09:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T22:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=11587"},"modified":"2016-12-01T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T22:54:27","slug":"mitchell-hamline-alums-and-faculty-among-2016-attorneys-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/28\/mitchell-hamline-alums-and-faculty-among-2016-attorneys-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Hamline alums and faculty among 2016 Attorneys of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/mnlawyer2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599 alignright\" src=\"\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/mnlawyer2016-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"AOY 2016 logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Several members of the Mitchell Hamline community are being honored as <a href=\"http:\/\/minnlawyer.com\/2016\/11\/22\/announcing-the-2016-attorneys-of-the-year\/\">Minnesota Lawyer&#8217;s 2016 Attorneys of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Hamline Professor <strong>Eric Janus<\/strong>, former president and dean of William Mitchell College of Law, is receiving an Outstanding Service to the Profession award, as are two distinguished alums: retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice\u00a0<strong>Esther Tomljanovich &#8217;55<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Loretta Frederick &#8217;78<\/strong>, senior legal policy advisor for the Battered Women\u2019s Justice Project.<\/p>\n<p>Alum\u00a0<strong>Virginia Bell &#8217;83<\/strong>\u00a0is also being honored for her work with the\u00a0recently launched <a href=\"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/01\/legal-incubator-for-mitchell-hamline-graduates-begins-work\/\">Collaborative Community Law Initiative<\/a>, a Mitchell Hamline partner that helps recent\u00a0graduates set up community-based, low bono law practices.<\/p>\n<p>The recipients will be recognized at the 17<sup>th<\/sup> annual Attorneys of the Year awards program, Feb. 16 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Individuals<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li><strong>Imran Ali &#8217;05<\/strong>\u00a0Washington County Attorney\u2019s Office<\/li>\n<li><strong>Virginia Bell &#8217;83<\/strong>\u00a0Collaborative Community Law Initiative<\/li>\n<li><strong>Edward Cassidy &#8217;81\u00a0<\/strong>Fredrikson &amp; Byron PA<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Choi<\/strong>*<strong> &#8217;95<\/strong>\u00a0Ramsey County<\/li>\n<li><strong>Richard L. Hendrickson &#8217;80<\/strong>\u00a0Richard L. Hendrickson PA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Philip Sieff<\/strong>*<strong> &#8217;85<\/strong>\u00a0Robins Kaplan LLP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Groups\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li>Appeals Self Help Clinic, including<strong> Liz Reppe &#8217;95 <\/strong>and<strong> Jennifer Young &#8217;09<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Latino Legal Experience Team, including<strong> Judge Peter M. Reyes<\/strong>*<strong> &#8217;97<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Petters Bankruptcy Team, including<strong> Mark Enslin &#8217;04 <\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Kirstin Kanski &#8217;05\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Partners<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li><strong>Celeste Culberth<\/strong>*\u00a0<strong>&#8217;92 <\/strong>and<strong> Leslie Lienemann<\/strong>*<strong> &#8217;92<\/strong> Culberth &amp; Lienemann LLP<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul McEllistrem &#8217;94 <\/strong>and<strong> Andy Rorvig &#8217;05\u00a0<\/strong>McEllistrem, Fargione, Landy, Rorvig &amp; Eken PA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reese Frederickson &#8217;06 and Michelle Skubitz &#8217;96\u00a0<\/strong>Pine County Attorney\u2019s Office<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charles Ramsay<\/strong>*<strong> &#8217;95<\/strong>\u00a0Ramsay Law Firm PLLC<\/li>\n<li><strong>Richard Ruohonen<\/strong>* <strong>&#8217;96<\/strong> and <strong>Charles Slane<\/strong>* <strong>&#8217;96<\/strong>\u00a0TSR Injury Law<\/li>\n<li><strong>Steve Schleicher<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>&#8217;95\u00a0<\/strong>United States Attorney\u2019s Office<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* Denotes Circle of Excellence, an attorney who has been named Attorney of the Year more than once<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several members of the Mitchell Hamline community are being honored as Minnesota Lawyer&#8217;s 2016 Attorneys of the Year. Mitchell Hamline Professor Eric Janus, former president and dean of William Mitchell College of Law, is receiving an Outstanding Service to the Profession award, as are two distinguished alums: retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice\u00a0Esther Tomljanovich &#8217;55\u00a0and\u00a0Loretta Frederick &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/28\/mitchell-hamline-alums-and-faculty-among-2016-attorneys-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Mitchell Hamline alums and faculty among 2016 Attorneys of the Year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4909,"featured_media":11589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}