About Mike Davey

Mike Davey is licensed to practice law in Minnesota and in the United States District Court for Minnesota.  As an attorney, he brings effective, high-quality, affordable legal services within reach of those who need them, but frequently find such services financially out of reach.  Mr. Davey has chosen to focus his law practice on estate planning (e.g. wills, healthcare directives, trusts) and consumer debt relief (e.g. Chapter 7 & 13 bankruptcy, negotiating with creditors, foreclosure prevention).

As a student at William Mitchell and now practitioner, Mike spends part of his time providing free or nearly free legal services to moderate and low-income individuals.  As a student, Mike volunteered at the free legal clinic at Hennepin County’s Project Homeless Connect.  As an attorney, Mike works with the Volunteer Lawyers Network to provide legal help to people who otherwise could not afford it.

Mike graduated with a Juris Doctor from William Mitchell College of Law.  While in school he helped found the William Mitchell Journal of Law & Practice.  As a founding member of the Journal he participated in developing the Journal’s Business Plan and served as a member of its editorial staff.  Mike also helped organize The Journal’s first symposium: “No Strings Attached—Regulating Judicial Campaign Speech: Judicial Elections in the Aftermath of Republican Party of Minnesota v. White.”  The symposium brought together Constitutional Law Scholars from Minnesota and the East Coast to examine how the Supreme Court’s ruling might come to affect the independence and integrity of the bench.

Other facts about Mike

Mike spent his senior year of high school as a Rotary exchange student in Stanghella, Italy, a small town about 50 miles from Venice.  Mike went to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where he double majored in History and Italian and spent another year studying abroad in Bologna, Italy.  After college Mike wanted to give back to his community.  He decided to serve his community as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer and spent a year organizing low-income tenants and helped them build the Minnesota Tenants Network, an organization that helped them better understand their legal rights as tenants and gave them a public forum through which they could advocate for their rights.

After serving as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer, Mike continued his work to advance the rights of the poor and socially-marginalized.  He joined the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless where he worked for about ten years.  As Organizing Director, he oversaw the organization’s community organizing with people experiencing homelessness program, developed a thriving student internship program by training and mentoring student volunteers and interns who played an integral role in Coalition-led campaigns, and worked to provide service providers and others committed to ending homelessness an avenue to participate in public policy discussion about homelessness and affordable housing.

Education

William Mitchell College of Law
Juris Doctor

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
B. A. Collage of Liberal Arts, double major in History and Italian

Admitted to Practice

Minnesota
Federal District Court, District of Minnesota