Today’s big law school news is the merger of Hamline and William Mitchell Law Schools into the Mitchell/Hamline School of Law to be located on Mitchell’s St. Paul campus. This is of particular interest to us here because of Hamline’s strong ADR program with wonderful faculty who are good friends. In the true win-win nature of negotiation (sorry John for bringing up the old paradigm) this seems like one of those situations. Even though William Mitchell’s dean “acknowledged that combining the two schools will result in some cuts in faculty and staff,” the ADR faculty certainly are well positioned being an area of strength. Congratulations friends and good luck with the new school.
