{"id":41,"date":"2015-11-19T20:26:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T20:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/center-for-law-and-business\/?p=41"},"modified":"2015-11-19T20:28:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T20:28:54","slug":"jd-advantage-jobs-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/center-for-law-and-business\/2015\/11\/19\/jd-advantage-jobs-in-business\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Advantage Jobs in Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An increasing number of legal professionals are pursuing JD Advantage jobs either directly out of law school or later on in their legal careers. The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) has defined \u201cJD Advantage\u201d jobs as positions for which an employer seeks an individual with a JD, and perhaps even requires a JD, or for which the JD provides a demonstrable advantage in obtaining or performing the job, but the jobs do not require bar passage, an active law license or involve practicing law.<\/p>\n<p>Hear from three attorneys working at Twin Cities-based companies <strong>UnitedHealth Group,<\/strong> <strong>Medtronic<\/strong> and <strong>Regis Corporation<\/strong> who will discuss the reasons they chose JD Advantage positions and how their law degrees have helped them in the business setting at their respective organizations.<\/p>\n<h3>Speakers<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li>Andy Roff, Medical Device Reporting Specialist for Medtronic<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Grant, Liability Manager for Regis Corporation<\/li>\n<li>Matt McDonough \u201907, Senior Director, Product Development for UnitedHealth Group (OptumRx)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moderated by Leanne Fuith, Director, Center for Law and Business at Mitchell Hamline School\u00a0of Law<\/p>\n<h3>Watch<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/144672662?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"276\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An increasing number of legal professionals are pursuing JD Advantage jobs either directly out of law school or later on in their legal careers. The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) has defined \u201cJD Advantage\u201d jobs as positions for which an employer seeks an individual with a JD, and perhaps even requires a JD, or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/center-for-law-and-business\/2015\/11\/19\/jd-advantage-jobs-in-business\/\" class=\"more-link\">JD Advantage Jobs in Business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-and-events","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/center-for-law-and-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/center-for-law-and-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/center-for-law-and-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/center-for-law-and-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/center-for-law-and-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/center-for-law-and-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/center-for-law-and-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/center-for-law-and-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/center-for-law-and-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}