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Murad Mohammad received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri. He went on to earn his law degree from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. While a law student at William Mitchell, Murad Mohammad was a recipient of the Leonard, Street, and Deinard Foundation Scholarship and the CALI Award of Excellence as the top student in his Alternative Dispute Resolution course. During law school, Murad Mohammad clerked at the Ramsey County Public Defender’s Office for two years and was awarded the Albert H. Mansfield fellowship to work on the Housing Discrimination Law Project with the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis.
After graduation from law school, Murad Mohammad clerked for the Honorable Kathleen Gearin, Chief Judge in the Second Judicial District, Ramsey County, Minnesota. As a law clerk, Murad became intimately familiar with the court administrative processes and helped author many opinions and legal memoranda. Following his clerkship, Murad Mohammad served as an Assistant Ramsey County Public Defender. While serving as an attorney with the Office of the Public Defender, Murad represented hundreds of clients in a variety of criminal defense cases. He is also a panel member of Criminal Defense Services Incorporated, which provides reduced fee legal help to clients who are unable to hire an attorney at full retainer fees.
Murad has since established the law firm of Mohammad & Jaafar-Mohammad, LLC, which maintains a criminal defense, estate planning, and business litigation based practice. Murad represents numerous non-profit agencies in the Twin Cities, as well as several dental clinics and health care clinics. Among his business clients, Murad also represents private schools, electronic game store franchises, several grocery stores, gas stations and an airport taxi service.
Murad also successfully represented numerous criminal defense clients in cases ranging from minor traffic offenses to violent crimes, gang-related incidents, and weapons and drug charges. Murad has secured acquittals and not-guilty verdicts in several of these cases, and successfully negotiated plea bargains in other cases.
Murad is also a Rule 14 Supreme Court of Minnesota Board Certified Neutral. Murad is on the board of numerous community service organizations, and has been invited to speak and present Continuing Legal Education presentations at the Minnesota Human Rights Day Conference, the Statewide Integration Conference, Education Minnesota Conference, and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Annual Conference.