2025 STUDENT PROFILE
As part of the clinical program, under the supervision of full-time professors, students take the lead on representing real clients who might not otherwise have access to an attorney. We offer the following clinics:
Business Law
Child Protection
Economic Inclusion
Employment Discrimination
Mediation Representation
First Amendment: Activism Clinic
Health Law
Immigration
Innocence
Intellectual Property: Patents
Intellectual Property: Trademark
Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners
Mediation
Native Law: Tribal Code Drafting
Nonprofit Tax Planning
Reentry
State Public Defender Post-Conviction
Wrongful Conviction and Sentencing
CENTERS AND INSTITUTES Special programs for
focused study
Our Dispute Resolution Institute has been ranked in the top ten by U.S. News & World Report for over 20 years. Our health law program is ranked nationally on the strength of our Health Law Institute.
Dispute Resolution Institute
Health Law Institute
Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute
FIELD PLACEMENTS
Intellectual Property Institute
Center for Law and Business
Learn more
mitchellhamline.edu/clinics
mitchellhamline.edu/academics/ centers-and-institutes
Externships and residencies for hands-on experience
We support students in a variety of externships that allow you to earn credit by working with practicing attorneys in your community. Deeper, more intensive experiences at external sites are available in your last three terms of law school through the residency program. Recent externships and residencies include:
Government
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Senate, Judiciary Committee
U.S. Army Judge Advocate Corps
U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate Corps
U.S. Department of the Interior, Solicitor General
Federal Public Defender
Federal District Court
FBI, Office of Integrity and Compliance
Minnesota Supreme Court
Minnesota Court of Appeals
Minnesota Secretary of State
Office of the Minnesota Attorney General, Conviction Review Unit
Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Lower Sioux Indian Community Tribal Court
Colorado Judicial Branch
First Judicial Circuit, Missouri
Montana Department of Justice
New Jersey Courts
Pennsylvania Attorney General Office
County Attorney Office (nationwide)
Public Defender Office (nationwide)
City of Saint Paul Attorney
El Paso District Attorney’s Office
Non-profits
Americans United for Life
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
Legal Assistance for Seniors
National Conflict Resolution Center
Mediation Center of Minnesota
Businesses
John Deere
Medtronic
3M
Munich Reinsurance America
Travelers Insurance
Big River Steel
Northern Oil and Gas
Target Corp.
Firms
100+ firms nationwide
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mitchellhamline.edu/field-placements