When Reda Taleb (McLean Class, 2015) talks about “giving back,” she isn’t just reciting a slogan — she’s living by example. The daughter of immigrants from Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, Taleb’s parents, along with her six older siblings, laid roots in Dearborn’s south end, an area known for its pollution-emitting factory smoke stacks and community of Arab Americans seeking the “American Dream.”
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At just two years of age Ahmed Salim moved with his family from their homeland in Pakistan to the United States, into the south suburbs of Chicago. Salim’s parents wanted what every other immigrant family wanted – a better life for their children.
Cooley Law School is not cut from the same cloth as traditional law schools; rather it’s fashioned to be a little unconventional—like many of our students—providing the structured flexibility other law schools can’t.
Nine years can be a relatively short time, or a very long time, depending upon circumstances. If you’re raising a family, nurturing your children and watching them grow, it can whip by in a flash. If you’re in prison for a crime you didn’t commit, it would drag on, second by miserable second.
Reese Kewin is not your average law student. In fact, there’s nothing average about her. At 46, and starting law school, Reese knew that a “huge life change was ahead,” not only for her, but for her six children.
Cooley Law School 1976 graduate, Board Chair, and State Bar of Michigan President Lawrence P. Nolan was the keynote speaker for the Cooley law student Christian Legal Society this month. He shared with the law students and guests how when tested in your career, by a client or in a case, you can use your faith to get through it. This blog originally posted on April 7, 2017, on our old blog site.
The Tampa Bay campus of Cooley Law School honored 43 graduates during a commencement ceremony held at University of South Florida’s Marshall Center. Students received their diplomas during the ceremony for earning their juris doctor degrees. Cooley 1976 graduate, Board Chair, and State Bar of Michigan President Lawrence P. Nolan was the keynote speaker. Below is his speech and advice to the newly minted attorneys. This blog originally posted on January 17, 2017, on our old blog site.
Cooley Innocence Project’s exoneree Donya Davis was choked up just thinking about this Mother’s Day.
This blog was originally posted on September 24, 2013 and is authored by Jim Thelen. At that time, Thelen was Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel for Cooley Law School. He attended the 2013 Boston Marathon in support of his wife, Kara Zech Thelen who was a Cooley Law School assistant professor at the time.
