Hiring Jessup Graduates
Alex Medina is a Jesus follower, husband, and father of four boys. He also owns and runs a law firm dedicated to serving and protecting California employers and business owners. “Like Jessup, my firm is about faith first,” he said. In 2002, Medina came to know the Lord when his father passed away suddenly just as he was about to graduate from law school. It was his childhood best friend who led him to Christ.
“I thought that since I was a Christian, I was supposed to be a pastor or a missionary. So while I was billing 2,100 hours a year at a huge firm in downtown Los Angeles, I went to Fuller Seminary at night,” he said. “I was exhausted and remember telling this same friend I was going to quit my job as a lawyer so I could go to seminary full time. He said something that put me on my path to where we are today: “The church has plenty of pastors and missionaries. We don’t have enough attorneys.” From that point forward, Medina set out to honor God in his law career.
The first Jessup alumnus Medina hired was Kyle Owen in 2020. Owen earned his Business Administration degree in 2012 from Jessup and continued on to law school. “Kyle is one of the best attorneys I’ve ever worked with,” Medina said. “So when the time came to hire an administrative assistant, one of the applicants who stood out was a recent Jessup graduate. We did an interview and she was amazing. We hired her to an entry-level position and in just over three years, she’s been promoted numerous times and now runs operations for our mediation practice.”
Shortly after that, the firm had another position to fill and the candidate who stood out once again, was a Jessup graduate. “She got the job and also is amazing! It’s only been a couple years and after starting as an entry-level admin, she’ll be a full-time paralegal in six months,” Medina said.
With the exception of attorneys who are hired for specific positions, Medina McKelvey hires most employees at entry-level then assesses them to determine their passions and God-given talents, later placing them in positions where those two things align. “Our Jessup grads have risen in the ranks so fast because they were prepared to hit the ground running,” Medina said.
“When we hired one awesome Jessup graduate, that’s happenstance. Two was a coincidence and three’s a pattern,” Medina said. “So we decided we would go out of our way to recruit Jessup graduates. Currently, almost one-third of our workforce are Jessup graduates.”
Some may say this current generation gets a bad rap for being entitled, lazy, having short attention spans or dubious morals. But Medina has experienced the opposite. “Jessup grads are the antidote to the stereotypes of this generation: They are hard working, innovative, entrepreneurial, full of character, integrity and they aren’t afraid to shine a light in the workplace. They also get involved in many of our Kingdom projects and causes we support locally, nationally, and globally, as well as our internal prayer meetings and care projects for our team.”
Impressed by the end result of a Jessup education, Medina’s prayer is that Jessup would be known not just as a regional destination for employers looking to hire talent, but a national one. “The way I see it, Jessup is the place for employers to find their best employees.”
