{"id":12961,"date":"2017-11-27T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T19:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=12961"},"modified":"2017-11-27T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T19:22:11","slug":"pioneer-press-checks-in-with-hybrid-j-d-program-as-first-grads-near-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/27\/pioneer-press-checks-in-with-hybrid-j-d-program-as-first-grads-near-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer Press checks in with Hybrid J.D. program as first grads near finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the first group of students prepares to graduate from Mitchell Hamline&#8217;s Hybrid J.D. program in January,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2017\/11\/23\/online-law-school-mitchell-hamline-school-of-laws-first-in-the-country-hybrid-program-will-soon-graduate-its-first-attorneys\/\">the St. Paul Pioneer Press profiled<\/a> the first-of-its-kind legal education effort in the newspaper&#8217;s Nov. 24 edition.<\/p>\n<p>The story also looks at the accomplishments of <strong>Brian Kennedy<\/strong> and <strong>Briana Al Taqatqa<\/strong>\u2013two of the roughly dozen students who will be among the first to earn their J.D. through the program. Kennedy and Al Taqatqa <a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2017\/07\/07\/mitchell-hamline-a-world-champion-in-international-negotiation-contest\/\">won the International Negotiation Competition<\/a> this summer in Oslo, Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Kennedy, who at 62 is the chief executive of the El Paso Sports Commission, told the Pioneer Press that the Hybrid J.D. program was the only option for him to earn his J.D.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, without the hybrid program, I couldn\u2019t go to law school,\u201d he said. \u201cIt just wasn\u2019t going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first group of students prepares to graduate from Mitchell Hamline&#8217;s Hybrid J.D. program in January,\u00a0the St. Paul Pioneer Press profiled the first-of-its-kind legal education effort in the newspaper&#8217;s Nov. 24 edition. The story also looks at the accomplishments of Brian Kennedy and Briana Al Taqatqa\u2013two of the roughly dozen students who will be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/27\/pioneer-press-checks-in-with-hybrid-j-d-program-as-first-grads-near-finish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Pioneer Press checks in with Hybrid J.D. program as first grads near finish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4909,"featured_media":12964,"comment_status":"closed","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":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}