{"id":17705,"date":"2021-07-27T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=17705"},"modified":"2021-07-28T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T15:20:13","slug":"recent-graduate-wins-outstanding-clinic-student-award-for-work-with-imprisoned-minnesotans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/27\/recent-graduate-wins-outstanding-clinic-student-award-for-work-with-imprisoned-minnesotans\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent graduate wins Outstanding Clinic Student Award for work with imprisoned Minnesotans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17706 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/07\/Claire-Beyer-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/07\/Claire-Beyer-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/07\/Claire-Beyer-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/07\/Claire-Beyer-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/07\/Claire-Beyer.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Recent Mitchell Hamline graduate Claire Beyer \u201821 has won an Outstanding Clinic Student award from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleaweb.org\/page-1006700\/10680869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clinical Legal Education Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beyer worked for 18 months in the school\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/clinics\/reentry-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reentry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/clinics\/lamp-legal-assistance-to-minnesota-prisoners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LAMP: Legal Assistance for Minnesota Prisoners<\/a> clinics. During that time, she filed, argued, and won three criminal record expungements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaire represented several clients in expungement cases where she was able to expunge her clients\u2019 criminal records, enabling them to better reenter the community,\u201d noted Brad Colbert, director of Mitchell Hamline\u2019s LAMP clinic. \u201cThrough her incredible hard work and diligence, the County agreed to every single one of our requests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyer also worked in the clinics to secure conditional medical release for inmates at high risk during COVID; helped draft an amicus brief in support of felon voting rights; and challenged pay-for-stay jail fees on behalf of indigent clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to learn about what it takes to file a lawsuit or argue a motion in front of a judge, but actually doing these things with the knowledge that your decisions will have a real impact on a real client\u2019s life is another thing entirely,\u201d said Beyer. \u201cI am so grateful Mitchell gave me the opportunity to gain practical experience while advocating for Minnesotans whose legal needs are frequently overlooked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After taking the bar exam, Beyer will clerk for Minnesota Supreme Court justice Gordon Moore before joining Fredrikson and Byron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Mitchell Hamline graduate Claire Beyer \u201821 has won an Outstanding Clinic Student award from the Clinical Legal Education Association. Beyer worked for 18 months in the school\u2019s Reentry and LAMP: Legal Assistance for Minnesota Prisoners clinics. During that time, she filed, argued, and won three criminal record expungements. \u201cClaire represented several clients in expungement &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/27\/recent-graduate-wins-outstanding-clinic-student-award-for-work-with-imprisoned-minnesotans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Recent graduate wins Outstanding Clinic Student Award for work with imprisoned Minnesotans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5668,"featured_media":17706,"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":[21,3,5],"tags":[36,42,243,188,187],"class_list":["post-17705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","category-features","category-news","tag-award","tag-brad-colbert","tag-claire-beyer","tag-lamp-clinic","tag-reentry-clinic","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17705","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\/5668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}