This chapter meeting will be to announce the new University of Montana Chapter leaders, and plan for events for the next academic year.

Please join the ACS Mitchell Hamline Chapter on Monday, April 22 from 12-1 pm to learn about Justice Karl Procaccini’s path to the Minnesota Supreme Court, his views on practicing law, and legal career paths. Lunch—likely Pizza Lucé—will be provided. Please RSVP by April 19 so we can have an accurate headcount.

Breakthrough Twin Cities is a non-profit organization working with students who face barriers to post-secondary education, to achieve success in college and careers. Breakthrough is seeking volunteers to work as college essay coaches with our 11th graders on April 20th from 1pm-5pm.

Essay coaches focus less on the mechanics and grammar of writing, and more on helping students articulate their own compelling personal narrative for college essays. ACS volunteers will have the opportunity to meet in-person with one or two students, hear their stories, and work with them to craft a compelling first draft of their college essay. Ice cream will be served to all volunteers.

Essay coaching will take place at Mounds Park Academy in St. Paul. For more information, please contact Dylan Saul at dsaul@fredlaw.com.

Join the Loyola University Chicago School of Law ACS Chapter for a conversation with Keith Ellison, the Attorney General for the State of Minnesota. Keith Ellison was sworn in as Minnesota’s 30th attorney general on January 7, 2019. As the People’s Lawyer, Attorney General Ellison’s job is to help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity, safety, and respect. His guiding values are generosity and inclusion. He is the first African American and the first Muslim American to be elected to statewide office in Minnesota.

 

In 2020, AG Ellison took over as special prosecutor in the George Floyd case. During the program, AG Ellison will provide his recollections from George Floyd’s Murder, the trial, and the aftermath, and discussing ending the cycle of police violence.

Walter Jean-Jacques joins Notre Dame ACS, FGP, and BLSA to discuss public interest lawyering. Walter is the Assistant General Counsel for the National Urban League, a Board Member for the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, and a 2020 graduate of NDLS. He previously clerked for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and served as a Public Interest Law Fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Join ACS Drake as we host a Criminal Law Professor for a discussion of the Schmidt decision- Appel was a part of that--that established a claim of actual innocence as due process for post-conviction claims.