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Career Center Helps Students, Employers Navigate Virtual Networking & Hiring
Did you know Minnesota Law's Career Center has held more than 6,400 online counseling appointments with students since the start of the academic year?
Learn more about the many innovative and flexible ways that students and employers are building connections, job searching, and hiring in a world gone virtual in a special online-only article in the digital edition of Minnesota Law magazine.
Prof. Turoski’s Proposal to Expand Patent Practice Opportunities for non-J.D. Students Gets Key Endorsement
Professor Christopher Turoski, director of Patent Law Programs and lecturer in law, has received a key endorsement for comments that he submitted to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) advocating for greater student participation and diversity in the patent practice bar by opening up more opportunities to those not in traditional J.D. program.
Career Center Launches 'Lawyering for Social Justice' Series; Prof. Heather Abraham '12 Is First Guest
Minnesota Law's Career Center recently launched an engaging new series, "Lawyering for Social Justice."
The series provides an opportunity to hear from human rights and social justice practitioners and to learn about their work and diverse career paths in the field.
Minnesota Law Mock Trial Team Wins Regional Competition, Advances to Nationals
A Minnesota Law mock trial team recently won the American College of Trial Lawyers/Texas Young Lawyers Association Region 12 mock trial competition. The team will advance to the national competition and will compete against the best trial advocacy programs in the country.
Dean Jenkins Named to the Board of Directors of Equal Justice Works
Garry W. Jenkins, dean and William S. Pattee Professor of Law, has been named to the board of directors of Equal Justice Works, the nation’s largest nonprofit that supports law students and lawyers in launching public interest legal careers.
Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson '83 Passes Away
Marriott International President and CEO Arne M. Sorenson ‘83 passed away yesterday.
Sorenson, who had been receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer, was 62.
One Couple, Two Minnesota Law Degrees with a Third in the Works
Those in search of future goodwill ambassadors for the Law School need look no further than Yu-Chen and Ruby Wang, an enterprising couple from Taiwan who have already earned two Minnesota law degrees and are working on a third. Currently riding out the pandemic in their Minneapolis home, they are busy studying, changing diapers, and contemplating careers that promise to be impressive.
Prof. Zamoff’s Article on Body-Cam Evidence Named to NACDL’s 'Must Read' List
Associate Clinical Professor of Law Mitch Zamoff’s 2020 Georgia Law Review article, “Assessing the Impact of Police Body Camera Evidence on the Litigation of Excessive Force Cases,” was recently named a “must read” article by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Academic Advisory Board of the Getting Scholarship into Court Project.
Brandie Burris, 2L, Elected First Black Editor-in-Chief of Minnesota Law Review
Brandie Burris, 2L, was recently elected editor-in-chief of Minnesota Law Review. She is the first Black student to hold that position in the publication’s 104-year history.
Read more in digital version of Minnesota Law, the Law School's magazine.
Newly Minted Attorney Connor Shaull ’20 Argues Clemency Project Case before 8th Circuit
Connor Shaull ‘20 began a new job at the Stinson law firm in Minneapolis on Jan. 11. Two days later, he was arguing a complex point of criminal procedure before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit.
Learn more about Shaull's experience with the case and Clemency Project in Minnesota Law magazine's special online-only coverage.