Recent Cooley Law School graduate Aimee Lorencz is turning years of professional experience and a passion for justice into a future career in criminal law. In a feature published by Legal News, Lorencz reflects on her journey from working as a correctional officer and CPS investigator to earning her law degree while balancing family, work, and leadership responsibilities. As a weekend/blended student, Lorencz immersed herself in hands-on learning opportunities including externships, moot court competitions, the Cooley Innocence Project, and student leadership roles. Her experiences strengthened her passion for criminal law, ethics, and advocacy. Read more about Aimee's story here: https://legalnews.com/Home/Articles?DataId=1606383.
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It was another great day at the ballpark! Hundred of kids shared in the festivities, including pre-ceremony activities where the Parks & Rec kids and Cooley law students share the field with the players and a relaxing and fun afternoon to take in a Lansing Lugnuts ball game. What was unclear was who was having more fun – the kids or the law students!
This blog was originally published on May 19, 2015. As much as every news affiliate is looking for a story, reporters and news sources are always in need of someone who can take personal opinion out of a story and replace it with a professional and objective account of a story – no matter how controversial. Many also can argue that literally every story has the potential to have a legal viewpoint.
Death is a difficult subject with which lawyers in certain practice areas deal regularly. Probate practitioners and estate planners, personal-injury lawyers handling wrongful-death cases, and prosecutors and defenders handling homicide cases all maintain and manage relationships with either the dying or family members and friends of the dead.
Guest Grand Rapids Legal News article by Roger Rapoport, reprinted with permission (All Rights Reserved): Legal News Editor’s Note: Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson, the next president of the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan, received his law degree with honors from Thomas M. Cooley Law School and went immediately into his career as a prosecutor in Muskegon County.
While perhaps the most well-known path after law school is taking the bar exam and becoming a litigation attorney, that is far from the only option for those with law degrees. Many law school graduates establish outstanding and successful careers that have little to do with being in a courtroom. When you combine the knowledge, skills and ethics you gain during your legal education and the resources of your network of over 20,000 graduates around the world, you are well-equipped for almost any leadership position. Here are seven career options that take place outside the courtroom.
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Cooley and its professors have always been known for teaching and advocating for the use of plain language in the legal profession. The professors have written several books and countless articles on the subject, edited legal writing journals and columns, and won national and international recognition for their work. And now, because of two professors’ efforts, the school has received a ClearMark Award from the U.S. Center for Plain Language.
If you’re in law school, you’re there for a reason, not on a whim. Maybe you have always had a passion for the law and couldn’t wait to embrace it as a career. Or perhaps you thought a law degree would help you improve your chances for advancement in your current job. Or you thought you could help others as an attorney, but you’re not sure in what ways. Now that you are on the way to a law degree, it’s time to think about specializing and choosing a concentration.
Post-graduate studies in any program are a huge commitment, but law school is especially challenging simply by its nature — the law is complex and difficult. Becoming a lawyer takes dedication, time and sometimes just sheer will power to meet all the demands and do well. So, when considering law schools, it pays to make sure you choose one that fits you, your life circumstances and your personal preferences. If you are seeking a law school that is as much an experience as it is an education, Cooley Law School has a lot to offer.
