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Derek Matthews gives next generation of Cooley Law School students a start in legal profession in Tampa

Derek Matthews gives next generation of Cooley Law School students a start in legal profession in Tampa

Derek Matthews (Vinson Class, 2017) is no stranger to giving back to Cooley Law School in the Tampa Bay region. Outside of legal practice, Matthews sponsors the annual Cooley Alumni Golf Outing in Tampa and participates in alumni events and mentoring programs to build relationships with faculty and fellow graduates.

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  • Think Your House is Haunted? Don't Sell Until You Get Some Legal advice.
    Think Your House is Haunted? Don't Sell Until You Get Some Legal advice.

    Think Your House is Haunted? Don't Sell Until You Get Some Legal advice.

    With Halloween just a few dark and dreary days away, many individuals have begun sharing ghost stories among their friends and family. Some stories may include tales about a neighborhood home that is suspected of having paranormal activity. While many times these stories are just stories, in some instances a homeowner may believe their house is, indeed, haunted and questioning whether disclosing this information is a must before putting their home on the market.

  • Cooley Faculty Legal Experts Available To The Media
    Cooley Faculty Legal Experts Available To The Media

    Cooley Faculty Legal Experts Available To The Media

    With campuses in Michigan and Florida, Cooley Law School professors are available to speak with members of the media regarding various issues facing the nation’s Nov. 3 elections. If you are interested in speaking with any of Cooley's legal experts, or securing their election night availability, please feel free to contact Tyler Lecceadone at SeyferthPR, the PR partner for Cooley Law School, at 616-776-3511 or email Lecceadone@seyferthpr.com

  • Law school success means being a self learner and following a system
    Law school success means being a self learner and following a system

    Law school success means being a self learner and following a system

    Dalton Dennis remembers early on that his father never made things easy. Whatever they did, his father wouldn't give him an answer. He wanted him to come up with that himself. It was frustrating, even infuriating for Dennis as a young boy and teenager. What he realized later was that was the best thing his father ever taught him - how to think on his feet and to answer his own questions. It's those exact lessons and skills that have put him at an advantage in life, including success in law school.

  • Does the President Have the Legal Right to Delay an Election?
    Does the President Have the Legal Right to Delay an Election?

    Does the President Have the Legal Right to Delay an Election?

    The following July 30, 2020 News 8 story called Constitutional professor weighs in on Pres. Trump’s tweet about delaying election by Ryan Hughes features Constitutional Law expert and Cooley Professor Brendan Beery. The short answer is no. Get the longer story below.

  • What is the Insurrection Law? Brig. Gen. Michael C.H. McDaniel explains
    What is the Insurrection Law? Brig. Gen. Michael C.H. McDaniel explains

    What is the Insurrection Law? Brig. Gen. Michael C.H. McDaniel explains

    Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense Strategy and retired Brigadier General Michael C.H. McDaniel, associate dean at Cooley Law School, was sought out by the media to explain how President Donald Trump can use the Insurrection Act to help control riots.

  • Online Legal Education: We’ve been doing it for a decade at Cooley
    Online Legal Education: We’ve been doing it for a decade at Cooley

    Online Legal Education: We’ve been doing it for a decade at Cooley

    Cooley has been offering online legal education for over a decade through our Graduate LL.M. Programs. Since 2010, LL.M. faculty have been teaching online classes, starting with the program in Intellectual Property Law, and then moving into other LL.M. degree programs in Tax, Homeland and National Security, and Corporate Law and Finance. We have also offered a Weekend Blended Learning Program for our J.D. students, allowing them to have 4 weeks of online instruction of a 15-week semester, since September 2017.

  • Cooley Faculty Experts Speak Out on Equal Access to Justice
    Cooley Faculty Experts Speak Out on Equal Access to Justice

    Cooley Faculty Experts Speak Out on Equal Access to Justice

    Tracey Brame, associate dean of Cooley’s Grand Rapids campus, Renalia DuBose, a Cooley professor in Tampa, Florida, and Criminal Law Professor Tonya Krause-Phelan, have been called upon to speak about racial injustices happening throughout the country and the legal ramifications following the recent deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, Georgia.

  • How COVID-19 Has Put a Spotlight on Civil Rights and Implicit Bias Issues
    How COVID-19 Has Put a Spotlight on Civil Rights and Implicit Bias Issues

    How COVID-19 Has Put a Spotlight on Civil Rights and Implicit Bias Issues

    On Thursday, April 9, ABC News reported on concerns over face coverings for people of color. The report states that people of color are being put in a position to choose between wearing a face mask for the safety of self and others, or to not wear a mask because it appears threatening to others, simply by being black, especially black males. The report came after two black males in eastern Illinois were followed out of a retail outlet by a police officer because they were wearing a mask, despite federal and state orders to wear masks.

  • Helping any way we can is the right thing to do.
    Helping any way we can is the right thing to do.

    Helping any way we can is the right thing to do.

    When the coronavirus hit and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued her stay home-stay safe order, thousands of people were suddenly faced with rearranging their lives to fit the new reality.