{"id":13179,"date":"2018-01-17T16:28:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T22:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=13179"},"modified":"2018-01-22T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T17:17:57","slug":"new-graduate-jessica-merkel-18-profiled-in-attorney-at-law-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/17\/new-graduate-jessica-merkel-18-profiled-in-attorney-at-law-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"New graduate Jessica Merkel &#8217;18 profiled in Attorney at Law Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13181 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/Jessica-Merkel-420x470-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/Jessica-Merkel-420x470-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/Jessica-Merkel-420x470.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/>Recent Mitchell Hamline graduate <strong>Jessica Merkel &#8217;18<\/strong> is profiled in the January issue of Attorney at Law Magazine. Merkel was one of 46 Mitchell Hamline students to receive their degrees during winter commencement on Jan. 7. She was also one of what turned out to be a total of 16 graduates who were the first to complete Mitchell Hamline\u2019s first-of-its-kind Hybrid J.D. program. Merkel and her fellow Hybrid J.D. graduates studied on an accelerated path, allowing them to finish the program in\u00a0two-and-a-half to three years instead of four.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was a great challenge,\u201d Merkel said in the Attorney at Law profile. \u201cAnd I have accomplished it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks after graduation, Merkel accepted a position at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruderware.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruder Ware<\/a> in Wausau, Wis. She&#8217;ll practice in the firm&#8217;s trusts and estates department.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the entire article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.attorneyatlawmagazine.com\/twin-cities\/jessica-merkel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Attorney at Law&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/admission\/intro\/earn-your-j-d-from-your-hometown\/?utm_source=mitchell-hamline&amp;utm_medium=news&amp;utm_campaign=merkel&amp;utm_term=merkel-atty-law&amp;utm_content=merkel-atty-law-hometown\">Learn how you can earn your J.D. from Mitchell Hamline from your hometown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Mitchell Hamline graduate Jessica Merkel &#8217;18 is profiled in the January issue of Attorney at Law Magazine. Merkel was one of 46 Mitchell Hamline students to receive their degrees during winter commencement on Jan. 7. She was also one of what turned out to be a total of 16 graduates who were the first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/17\/new-graduate-jessica-merkel-18-profiled-in-attorney-at-law-magazine\/\" class=\"more-link\">New graduate Jessica Merkel &#8217;18 profiled in Attorney at Law Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4909,"featured_media":13183,"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-13179","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\/13179","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=13179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}