Can Private Practice Be in the Public Interest?

Topics:
  • Community Education/Outreach
  • Continuing Legal Education Program (CLE)

This one-hour CLE, sponsored by Mitchell Hamline School of Law and MJF, will be followed by dancing and spoken word performances to benefit the Angie McCaffrey Public Interest Scholarship Fund.

If you are an attorney or law student who wishes to serve the common good as well as the interests of private clients, what are your options? How do the profession and society define public interest law practice? Does public interest practice include lawyers who charge fees? Or is it mostly pro bono service and non-profit and government practice? Explore these questions and other current issues in public service—including its ethical boundaries--during a panel discussion with 3 distinguished attorneys in private practice.

Shauna Coons '07, Associate Attorney at HoganAdams who serves tribal clients;
Paula Duthoy '90, solo practitioner focusing on immigration, including asylum and VAWA cases;
Heather Gilbert '12, President of Gilbert Law PLLC who represents deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind clients in plaintiffs' civil rights matters.
Moderator Ann Juergens, Professor at Mitchell Hamline, former Co-Director of Clinics.

Please RSVP your attendance by Monday, October 24th. RSVP here: http://tinyurl.com/zwtekaw

We request a free will donation to benefit the McCaffrey Public Interest Scholarship Fund for the CLE and for dancing to The Patience Band and spoken word performance with drinks and popcorn.

Questions? Please contact Professors Marie Failinger [marie.failinger@mitchellhamline.edu] or Ann Juergens [ann.juergens@mitchellhamline.edu].

  • CLE Credit Comments: 1 hour ethics CLE credit will be applied for