El Pasoan to represent the U.S. at an international competition

Brian Kennedy can debate.

The president and chief executive of the El Paso Sports Commission and his partner recently won the national championship for the American Bar Association’s Negotiation Competition.

Kennedy has working to get his law degree at what is described to be the first part-time online law school. The law school is located in St. Paul, Minn., and is accredited by the American Bar Association.

Kennedy said he is able to keep up with the daily tasks of his job while focusing on law school through the hybrid program, which is the first of it’s kind and started in the fall of 2015.

Kennedy said students spend two weeks a year at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law, and the rest of the year students take tests online and have teleconferences.

Despite working and studying for his degree, Kennedy also found time to prepare for a national negotiation competition. Kennedy and his partner will represent the U.S. in Norway. Kennedy said he is part of the only team in the United States that was chosen for the international competition, which will take place at the end of June.