Western Michigan University's Cooley Law School is an American law school. WMU-Cooley has four campuses: Its main campuses are in Lansing, Michigan and its satellite campuses are in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Auburn Hills, Michigan, and Tampa, Florida. The first year courses can be taken at the Kalamazoo campus at Western Michigan University.
Affiliates between Cooley and Western Michigan University entered into force on 13 August 2014.
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Thomas E. Brennan, former Chief Justice of Michigan's Supreme Court, led a group of lawyers and judges in establishing Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1972. Named in honor of Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1824-1898), also former Supreme Court Justice, the leading law of the 19th century. Cooley is the dean of the University of Michigan Law Faculty and guest lecturer at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
On July 28, 2014, ABA and the Higher Learning Commission granted approval to affiliates between Cooley and the University of Western Michigan. On August 13, 2014, affiliates became official and included Cooley changed his name from "Thomas M. Cooley Law School" to "Cooley Law School of Western Michigan University." The Cooley Law School classes are offered in each of the four Western Michigan campuses.
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Curriculum
Cooley prepares his graduates for entry into the legal profession. While most students work towards Juris Doctorate (JD) degrees, Cooley also offers a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree and a joint degree in Master of Business Administration (JD/MBA) and a Master of Public Administration (JD/MPA). (The JD/MBA is offered in partnership with Oakland University; JD/MPA is offered in partnership with Western Michigan University.) Concentrations include: general practice, litigation, business transactions, administrative law, international law, environmental law, taxation, intellectual property, Canada, and focused studies.
Cooley operates a program that enables ABA-approved foreign study credit in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In addition, students may study at ABA-approved programs through partner law schools, including US law school programs operating in: London, United Kingdom (University of Notre Dame); Oxford, UK (Florida State University); Madrid, Spain (College of William and Mary); Montreal and Quebec, Canada (Pennsylvania State University); and Paris, France and Muenster, Germany.
Accreditation
Cooley has been accredited by the American Bar Association since 1975 and by the Higher Learning Commission since 2001.
Clinical program
Cooley offers a clinical program on every campus. Students who participate in one of Michigan's clinics are allowed to practice law in Michigan under the Michigan Rules of Court by representing clients in court, drawing up client documents, and providing legal advice under the supervision of faculty. The Innocence Project is nationally recognized in the United States for helping free people who are improperly imprisoned by obtaining DNA evidence and providing legal bosses to undo their beliefs. Cooley also offers an elder legal clinic, Sixty Plus, Inc., which provides free legal services to elderly citizens, as well as two Public Defender clinics, which allow students to work in the Public Defender's office with a poor client accused of a crime. Access to Justice Clinic provides general civil practice, focusing on family law and consumers. Free legal assistance in family law and domestic violence issues is offered at the Family Law Assistance Project. Night and weekend students can gain experience at the Plantation Planning Clinic or Public Sector Law Project, which provides civil, transactional, counseling, legislative or systemic civil services to the government.
Cooley offers externships across the United States at more than 2600 approved externship sites. External students work under the supervision of experienced lawyers, with full-time faculty guidance.
Cooley is currently the Executive Officer of the Torah: The American Society of Legal Writers.
Library
Cooley has a library in each of its five campuses. Legal research can be done in libraries through various media, including print, electronic, and multimedia sources. Reference librarians are present on every campus. The library has a total of about 60 staff. CoolCat is an online library catalog. The Cooley library collectively accommodates about 670,000 volumes with an annual growth rate of over 17,000 volumes. Cooley's Law has reciprocal agreements with Western Michigan University and Oakland University that allow access to material in every institution's collection.
Motto
Motto Latin Cooley, In corde hominum est anima legis , written in the 1970s by its founder, former Supreme Court Chief of Michigan Thomas E. Brennan. Brennan originally described the meaning as "the spirit of the law is in the hearts of men"; when a women's organization called the Cooley Action Team argued that the motto should also refer to "women's heart", Justice Brennan agreed and turned it into "The spirit of the law is in the hearts of men".
Cost
Total attendance cost (indicating cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) in Cooley for the academic year 2013-2014 is $ 63,772. Around that time, Transparency School Law estimated the three-year debt-funded attendance fee to $ 258,232.
The section bar
Cooley graduates have been struggling to pass state examinations, a requirement for legal practice. In recent years, the average level of the school bar section is about 50%. The average school bar elevation rate is 51.86% by 2015, 52.73% by 2014, and 51.45% by 2013. Cooley's line bar row has an average of about 20% lower than the average graduation rate state.
According to the disclosures required by the American Bar Association (ABA), 27.4% of graduates from the 2015 class receive full-time, long-term, bar-passage jobs nine months after graduation, 23.8% graduates unemployed 9 months after graduation. 53% of graduates passed the Michigan bar exam on their first attempt in July 2017, below the 83% average for other Michigan law schools.
Rating and reputation
In 2006, Cooley received the E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award from the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professionalism for the school program "Creating a Culture of Professionalism in Law School".
During the 2015-2016 application cycle, Cooley recognizes 85.8% of applicants. Classes entering autumn 2016 have an average GPA of 2.90 and median LSAT of 141 (15th percentile of test participants). The 25th percentile g score of the enrolled students is 2.60 and the 25th percentile LSAT of the enrolled students is 138 (the 9th percentile of the test participants). Law professor David Frakt describes the entry of the Cooley class in 2015 as "a class of law students who entered statistically in the history of American legal education at ABA-Accredited law school."
In 2012, Cooley was noticed, by the plaintiff's lawyer in a civil lawsuit about false advertising, for having "the loosest acceptance standards of an accredited or accredited American law school... graduate employment prospects are bleak, even compared to general legal job market conditions terrible. "In 2013, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the dismissal of the district court on the plaintiff's claim because although the graduates' complaints indicate that the statistics they rely on are not objectively correct, their reliance on statistics makes no sense. Judge Quist notes that "it does not make sense for Plaintiffs to rely on two bare bone statistics in deciding to attend lower-class law schools with the lowest acceptance standards in the country."
In 2017, Cooley is approved by the American Bar Association's Legal Education and Admission Section because of its loose acceptance standards. That same year, the school was rated "the worst" law school in the country by the Aboriginal legal website, referring to the list of "the 10 least-selective law schools in the US (excluding Puerto Rico)."
After discovering in 2017 that Cooley was one of ten American law schools that did not meet the American Bar Association's requirement that schools accept only students who looked capable of obtaining a Doctor Juris degree and passed the exam, the ABA announced in April 2018 that the school now complies with that requirement.
According to the Law School Transparency organization, Cooley is considered one of the most risky law schools to exploit students for college tuition.
Post-graduation work
According to data provided by Cooley to the American Bar Association, Legal Education and Acceptance Section to the Bar, for the purpose of complying with the accreditation standards set by ABA, 23.8% of graduates from the 2015 class are unemployed nine months after graduation. Only 27.4% of graduates are getting the full-time, long-term, and bar work required. 5% of graduates work in non-professional jobs. 10.1% of graduates work in part-time jobs.
Only 311 out of 1079 (28.8%) graduates in 2012 are entitled to full positions, long-term positions requiring bar admission (ie, employment as lawyers), 9 months after graduation. According to ABA-2013 official disclosures required by Cooley, 22.9% of Class 2013 gets full-time, long-term employment, and requires JD, nine months after graduation. The job vacancy score at Cooley Law School is 46%, indicating the percentage of the 2013 Class that is unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.
In addition, 215 of 311 (69.1%) were employed in companies consisting of one to ten lawyers, 44 were employed as solo practitioners, and 171 were employed in companies from two to ten lawyers. A total of 13 graduates (1.2%) have found employment in companies of more than 100 lawyers, and two graduates (0.2%) have obtained federal court officials.
ABA branch and accreditation
In 2002, when Cooley expanded, Cooley filed a lawsuit against the American Bar Association for delaying accreditation of its satellite campuses in Grand Rapids and Auburn Hills. Cooley is working to earn ABA accreditation since the satellite school opened in June 2002, but has faced a delay caused by a dispute over the standard, settled by the settlement of Cooley's lawsuit with ABA, resulting in ABA approval.
In May 2012, Cooley opened a new branch campus in Riverview, Florida, in the Tampa Bay area.
After experiencing a 35% reduction in enrollment on its five campuses between 2012 and 2013, Cooley announced on July 2, 2014, that it will not enroll first-year students on the Ann Arbor campus for the Michaelmas term by 2014, but now and transfer students can continue their studies they are on campus. The announcement also calls for cuts in faculty and staff. On October 3, after outlining a transitional plan in June, Cooley announced the Ann Arbor camp will cease to operate permanently on December 31, 2014. The Ann Arbor camp is then sold in 2015 to Concordia University, Ann Arbor, to become the home of the Concordia Nursing School.
Since the term Michaelmas in 2015, Cooley has offered first-year classes on the Kalamazoo campus at Western Michigan University. Rank
and Assessing Law School
Cooley is displayed as "Unpublished Rank" in AS. News & amp; World Report list of law schools. Cooley is ranked second in the twelfth edition of Assessing Law School , published by Cooley.
Cooley relies heavily on his library statistics in his own School of Assessment ratings. Specifically, Cooley has 10 library-based statistics in the rankings of 2010, which include separate entries for the total square area in the library, available seats in the library, number of open library hours, total number of volumes in the library, number of titles in the library, number of librarians, hours of staff work in the library, and some other library-based criteria. Cooley has been subjected to criticism and strong reactions to provide the same value of these library-based statistics to far more important factors such as bar-section rates and the percentage of graduates who work after graduation.
Cooley's demands by
In July 2011, Cooley filed a libel suit against law firm Kurzon Strauss, LLP and four anonymous bloggers after they claimed the school inflated its post-graduate employment statistics and was under federal investigation due to the failure rate of student loans. The company retracted the statement, but retained the school using 'Enron-style' accounting techniques to manipulate their job placement data. In September 2013, US District Judge Robert J. Jonker dismissed the lawsuit, stating that Cooley was a restricted public figure and did not provide sufficient evidence that the defendants acted with the actual crime. The Court further notes "the assertion that 'Cooley is massively increasing the average salary of the reported graduates' may not only be protected by hyperbole, but is actually substantially correct."
Class action against Cooley
In August 2011, a class action suit by 12 Cooley graduates was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, alleging fraud and misrepresentation about job vacancy information published by Cooley about his graduate. The school responded by filing a motion to be fired. On July 20, 2012, Judge Gordon Jay Quist granted the motion, concluding: "The bottom line is that the statistics provided by Cooley and other legal schools in the format required by the ABA are so vague and incomplete that they are meaningless and can not be reasonably reliable. But, as put in the phrase we lawyers learned at the start of law school - caveat emptor . "The judge further notes that" it does not make sense for the Plaintiff to rely on two bare bones statistics "in deciding to attend Cooley because "it is widely accepted that American law schools, including Cooley, employ all types of leggame to increase the level of employment in the contract law market."
Faculty and layoff staff
In August 2014, Associate Dean James Robb announced that Cooley had begun laying off faculty and staff at all campuses. A JD Journal article claims that the layoffs will exceed 50%, but James Robb rejects this claim. Cooley has experienced more than 40% registration downgrades in recent years and has raised tuition by 9%.
Famous faculty
- Spencer Abraham - former US Senator and United States Energy Secretary
- Robert Holmes Bell - US District District Court Judge for Michigan's Western District
- Thomas E. Brennan - founder of Cooley Law School; former Supreme Court Justice of Michigan
- Justin Brooks - criminal defense lawyer; lecturer of criminal law and the law of capital punishment
- Stuart Dunnings III (Former) - Attorney for Ingham Region, Michigan
- John Warner Fitzgerald - former Chairman of the Supreme Court of Michigan (deceased)
- James Cooper Morton - professor of evidence and further evidence
- Philip J. Prygoski - constitutional lawyer and author, member of the American Law Institute
- John W. Reed - a graduate of the University of Michigan; Fellow of the Barrister International Society
- James L. Ryan - judge at the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; member of the sovereign armed forces of Malta; US Navy Reserve, Captain, Pension
Famous Alumni
- Rosemarie Aquilina - judge of circuit court, Ingham County, Michigan
- Terry Bankert - politician
- Chris Chocola - former Representative of Indiana's 2nd congress district
- Michael Cohen - lawyer for US President Donald Trump
- Jon Cooper - head coach of Tampa Bay Lightning
- Kevin Cotter - Michigan Representative for the 99th District; House Speaker 2015-16
- Todd Courser - former Michigan Representative of the 82nd District
- Alan Cropsey - Michigan Senate and House of Representatives member
- Diane Dietz - University of Michigan All-American in basketball; Big 10 Conference Chief Communication Officer
- John Engler - former Michigan governor; Chairman of the Michigan Prosperity Fund from Blackford Capital
- Andrew Farmer - Tennessee Representative for the 17th District
- Edward Gaffney - Michigan State Representative; director of the Michigan Center for Truck Safety
- Anthony H. Gair - New York City lawyer representing Amadou Diallo's family in a case against the New York City Police Department
- Mark Grisanti - Buffalo, New York State Senator of New York, 60th District; in 2015, Acting Judge of the High Court of New York
- Chris Hazel - Louisiana House of Representatives for District 27 since 2008
- Paul Hillegonds - former Michigan Representative for the 88th District; director of government relations for DTE Energy
- Jim Howell (politician) - Michigan House of Representatives representing parts of Saginaw
- Iqra Khalid - Member of Canadian Parliament since 2015
- Joseph Lagana - member, New Jersey General Assembly
- Charles Macheers - Kansas Representative for the 39th district
- Hiroe Makiyama - Japan's National Diet Advisory Board
- Jane Markey - judge, Michigan Court of Appeal, Third District
- Edward Mermelstein - New York City lawyer and real estate developer
- Kamal Nawash - principal at Nawash Law Firm, Washington, DC
- Tedd Nesbit - representative for the Pennsylvania Representative Council, District 8
- Joseph P. Overton - a political scientist who developed the Overton Window concept; senior vice president of Mackinac Public Policy Center
- Ruby Sahota - Member of Canadian Parliament
- Nicholas Scutari - New Jersey State Senate
- Bart Stupak - former Representative of Michigan's first congressional district
- Rashida Tlaib - Michigan Representative from District 6
- Steve Stern (politician) - Member of Parliament New York Democratic Party; former partner at Davidow and Davidow in Iceland, New York, focuses on older law.
References
External links
- Official website
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