Three William Mitchell students have been honored for their work on behalf of LGBT issues. Jessica Englund ‘12, Brandon Gil ’12, and Helen Paillé ‘12 were selected for OutFront Minnesota’s 25 under 25 award, which recognizes emerging leaders who are advancing LGBT equality. They are the only law students to be selected.
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Student Award of Merit winner focuses on children and families
Candice Duncan ’12 doesn’t do a lot of sitting around. She volunteers. She’s a Guardian ad Litem. She’s a single mother of a six-year-old. She’s training to be a parenting consultant.
Two Mitchell students picked for national group executive board
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William Mitchell will be well represented in the National Native American Law Students Association in 2012-2013. Two second-year students, Matt Elias and Veronica Newcomer, were elected to leadership positions at the organization’s recent national conference.
Mitchell faculty in the news
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Following is a list of some of the recent media stories in which Mitchell faculty are featured or quoted:
Fulbright Scholarship and Mitchell relationships result in return home for graduate
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Michael Murphy spent the first 10 years of his life in Papua New Guinea. Now after graduating this spring, he’ll head back there as a Fulbright Scholar. Murphy will spend seven months living in Port Moresby, the country’s capital, and three months living in a Nahu village with the barest essentials as he helps the…
Center for Law and Business celebrates its one-year anniversary
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Four years ago, Jann Olsten ’74 had a lunch conversation about how a law degree makes an excellent foundation for a business career. As co-founder and former chief executive officer of the leading scrapbooking supply company Archiver’s, Olsten says he uses the skills he learned at Mitchell every day.
Student gives his time to help the homeless
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First-year student Matt Enger had a final in two days, but studying would have to wait while he performed some valuable community service. Enger spent the day volunteering at the Cass-Clay Project Community Connect event in Fargo, providing legal factsheets and referrals while working alongside Heidi Uecker, staff attorney at the Moorhead office of Legal…
Mitchell student honored for volunteer legal work
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A third-year student’s work to help small businesses and people of modest income recently earned her recognition from the Minnesota State Bar Association. Adina Florea received the MSBA’s Volunteer Law Student Award, part of the 2012 Bernard P. Becker Awards for Legal Services Staff and Volunteer Law Students.
Minnesota State Bar Association presents Professor Edward Toussaint, Jr. with Advocate Award
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Distinguished Professor of Law Edward Toussaint, Jr. has been named this year’s recipient of the Minnesota State Bar Association Advocate Award.
Mitchell students play key role in creation of bill protecting vulnerable adults
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When Gov. Mark Dayton signed the bill that makes it a felony to intentionally and severely neglect vulnerable adults, he enacted legislation that was partially shaped by the hard work of a group of William Mitchell students and the Center for Elder Justice & Policy.
Leonard, Street and Deinard’s first annual Project: Business™ event will focus on ownership transition strategies for closely held and family-owned businesses
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Owners and executives of closely held and family-owned businesses should be aware of how early strategic planning can put them in better control of their eventual business transition. This forward-thinking approach is the focus of the first event in Project: Business
Professor Daniel S. Kleinberger: As National Expert, He Writes the Laws
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For more than two decades, Mitchell Professor Daniel Kleinberger has been a fixture in state and national legislative drafting projects, writing the statutes that govern limited liability companies (LLCs), limited partnership (LPs) and limited liability partnerships (LLPs).
Professor Kimberley Dayton: Making Policy, Changing Lives
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As director and founder of Mitchell’s Center for Elder Justice and Policy, Professor Kimberley Dayton works daily to bring resources and legal expertise to seniors and their families. However, she never loses sight of her main priority: providing students with real-world policymaking experience.
Professor Ted Sampsell-Jones: Bringing the Court to the Classroom
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When Mitchell Professor Ted Sampsell-Jones teaches Evidence, he has his students evaluate the prosecution’s evidence from the Barry Bonds case. In his Sentencing class, his students write a memo from the perspective of a Minnesota public defender. It’s real-world work that Sampsell-Jones knows personally.
California Supreme Court Associate Justice Goodwin Liu to address current, former Law Review editors
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Goodwin Liu, an associate justice on the California Supreme Court, will deliver the keynote address at this year’s Law Review Banquet.