Andrew Mohring

Andrew H. Mohring has been a criminal defense and civil rights trial lawyer for 36 years. Currently of counsel at Goetz and Eckland P.A., Andrew spent most of his career as a lawyer in the Office of the Federal Defender for the District of Minnesota. As such, he has seen the impact of imprisonment on the incarcerated, their children, families, and communities, up close and in detail. Previously, he was a partner at Ciresi Conlin LLP, the First Assistant Federal Defender, the Federal Defender for the Yosemite National Park, an associate in the Washington D.C. office of O’Melveny & Myers, a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences on natural resource issues, and a law clerk to Hon. James M. Rosenbaum of the District of Minnesota. Andrew is a past chair of the boards of Minnesota Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers and the Hennepin County Bar Foundation, sits on the Minnesota Board of Public Defense and the MSBA Criminal Law Board. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota Law School and volunteers extensively for these and other Minnesota non-profit organizations.

Among other pats on the back, he received the 2025 MSBA Lifetime Achievement Award, Attorney of the Year Awards from Minnesota Lawyer in 2017 (outstanding service to the profession), 2019 (Minnesota Prisoner Hepatitis C 1983 Class Action Litigation), and 2020 (District of Minnesota Compassionate Release), and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a MSBA Certified Criminal Law Specialist.