Gabe Berntson is fulltime faculty at the Eagan campus, where he serves as the Paralegal Studies Program Coordinator. In addition to providing programmatic leadership, he teaches all of the courses in the Paralegal Studies program, and considers PL140 Contracts and PL215 Real Estate Law his favorites.
Gabe holds a Juris Doctorate from Hamline University’s School of Law, and has his Bachelor of Arts from University of St. Thomas. He is licensed to practice law in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
When it comes to teaching, Gabe believes in combining theoretical approaches to the paralegal field with practical instruction, so that a student understands both how to perform paralegal tasks and why he or she is doing them. “Theory without practice (or vice versa),” Gabe writes, “unfairly handicaps students who want not only to obtain a career, but also to be good at it.”
By the by, it would probably not pay to play against Gabe in darts, horseshoes, or really any sport involving projectiles. It turns out that outside of his Rasmussen duties, Gabe is one of the foremost Javelin (track & field) coaches in the country.
