{"id":25921,"date":"2023-08-28T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=25921"},"modified":"2023-10-10T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:58:58","slug":"mcconlogue-brings-clinics-experience-and-a-desire-to-mentor-students-to-mitchell-hamline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/28\/mcconlogue-brings-clinics-experience-and-a-desire-to-mentor-students-to-mitchell-hamline\/","title":{"rendered":"McConlogue brings clinics experience and a desire to mentor students to Mitchell Hamline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Associate Professor Nicole McConlogue<\/p><\/div>\n

Nicole McConlogue is the first to admit she didn\u2019t exactly know what she wanted to be when she grew up.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Baltimore, she started taking French in seventh grade, which ultimately led to an undergraduate degree in French literature. She then went to law school and focused on consumer protection. That led to several years as the project manager for consumer protection matters at a pro bono service in Maryland, followed by a pivot to legal education.<\/p>\n

McConlogue\u2019s winding path gives her a unique lived experience as she joins Mitchell Hamline as an associate professor of law. But none of it was meticulously planned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is, there were points in my life when I could have used more intentional guidance from counselors or mentors,\u201d said McConlogue. \u201cI gravitated towards consumer protection law because I wanted to stop bad actors from putting a thumb on the scales to enrich themselves at the expense of marginalized people who are doing the right things and just trying to make it out there. If I were counseling my teenage self, I\u2019d probably have majored in something like economics or sociology.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut my roundabout path has also made me passionate about offering my students the kind of mentoring and counseling I needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

McConlogue also brings important clinical education experience to Mitchell Hamline, having most recently directed the clinical program at West Virginia College of Law. She oversaw the entire program while also directing the Litigation and Advocacy Law Clinic. \u201cWe did a lot of work to rethink how our students could get relevant and practical real-world legal experience,\u201d said McConlogue. \u201cTraditional client representation is crucial, but there are a multitude of other ways lawyers are well-positioned to benefit people and organizations through their training.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal was to expose students to all the ways that lawyers can get involved in communities and change the world, which is very much at the heart of what Mitchell Hamline does. It\u2019s energizing to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

That ethos, McConlogue adds was informed by her graduation from law school in 2010\u2013a post-recession time when finding work as a practicing attorney was difficult. She initially did pro bono work to use her skills, which soon led to a job at a small firm and, later, the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland.<\/p>\n

When she turned to academia, she did so with an eye towards clinical education. She first joined the University of Baltimore School of Law as a clinical teaching fellow in that school\u2019s advocacy clinic. She then joined the West Virginia University College of Law in 2020.<\/p>\n

Last December, McConlogue was named to the transition team<\/a> for Maryland\u2019s incoming attorney general, Anthony Brown. McConlogue, who clerked in the antitrust division as a law student, advised the attorney general-elect on how to best proceed in tackling consumer protection issues.<\/p>\n

At Mitchell Hamline, McConlogue is teaching advocacy this fall, a course that focuses on practical lawyering skills. \u201cI love showing students there are a lot of options and ways to be a lawyer,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd, as my own story shows \u2013 there are also a lot of ways to end up as a law student.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of those ways are valid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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