Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc.
Thomas Mueller is an experienced attorney with a strong background in housing law and legal support services. Since March 2020, Thomas has been serving as Supervising Attorney in the Housing Practice Area at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc., after previously working as a Staff Attorney focused on litigation in housing law. Prior experience includes a role as a Legal Editor at Thomson Reuters, where Thomas specialized in legal research, analysis, and writing, and as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Minnesota Judicial Branch, conducting legal research and preparing briefs and memoranda. Thomas has also contributed to community engagement initiatives at Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota and has clinical experience as a Certified Student Attorney at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, representing clients in unemployment benefits and employment discrimination cases. Academically, Thomas holds a Juris Doctor from Mitchell Hamline School of Law, a Master of Arts in Theology from Bethel University, and a Bachelor's Degree in Religion with a minor in Political Science from Gustavus Adolphus College.
Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc.
Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc. provides free, high-quality legal help to low-income people in critical civil matters. For more 110 years, we’ve helped individuals and families secure and protect their basic needs, maintaining freedom from hunger, homelessness, sickness, and abuse. Because, Justice Matters ®. TO GET HELP CALL 1-888-575-2954 OR APPLY ONLINE at www.smrls.org SMRLS® mission is: To provide a full range of high quality legal services to low-income persons and eligible client groups in civil matters, in a respectful manner which enables clients to: (1) enforce their legal rights; (2) obtain effective access to the courts, administrative agencies and forums which constitute our system of justice; (3) maintain freedom from hunger, homelessness, sickness and abuse; (4) empower persons and assure equal opportunity, thus, helping people to help themselves and become economically self-reliant, to the extent their individual abilities and circumstances permit. SMRLS®, through a diverse, respectful and fair working environment, and legal assistance and community education activities, promotes and respects the dignity of low-income persons and seeks new and effective solutions to the critical and common legal problems of low-income persons which arise in a broad community context.