LANSING, Mich. – Graduates of Cooley Law School’s Lansing campus were honored during a commencement ceremony at the MSU Wharton Center Pasant Theatre in East Lansing on Dec. 12.
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TAMPA, Fla. – Graduates of Cooley Law School’s Tampa campus were honored during a commencement ceremony at the New Tampa Performing Arts Center in Tampa on Dec. 16.
TAMPA BAY, FLA, — On Nov. 20, Cooley Law School’s Tampa Bay campus recognized students in the Michaelmas Term for their achievements during an honors convocation.
LANSING, MI. — On Nov. 20, Cooley Law School’s Lansing campus recognized students in the Michaelmas Term for their achievements during an honors convocation.
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LANSING, MI and TAMPA, FL. — Cooley Law School has announced it welcomed its largest incoming class in seven years, an increase of 36 percent above the law school’s enrollment projections for 2025-2026 and an increase of 100% from the fall 2024 entering class.
Cooley Law School Professors Brad Charles and Mark Cooney and Emeritus Professor Joseph Kimble recently published new books about skill building, clear drafting, and the importance of writing in practice, reflecting Cooley's longstanding commitment to practical skills, plain language, and clear communication. The three professors, who are multi-book authors, “have always been active writers, and we each wanted to offer something new and helpful to students and lawyers,” said Charles. Charles's textbook, “Legal Analysis Writing Skills,” is a comprehensive how-to guide for new legal writers. His overriding message to students is that they’re learning skills – not documents – which are transferable to all legal documents, from appellate briefs to correspondence and exam essays. Cooney’s “The Case for Effective Legal Writing,” coauthored by University of Arizona Professor Diana Simon, is the first of its kind: a legal-writing casebook. The book gathers cases from across the nation in which the quality of a lawyer's writing affected the case's outcome or a court's resolution of an issue. Kimble's latest book, “Essentials for Drafting Clear Legal Rules,” is a long-awaited collaboration with Bryan Garner. It captures the authors’ decades of work restyling all five sets of federal court rules. The book is a trove of advice and examples on legal drafting, and it will be invaluable to all lawyers, especially legislative drafters, rule drafters, and transactional attorneys. The book is available for free at the U.S. Courts website. Cooley Law School was one of the first law schools to recognize that mastery of research techniques and writing skills is as important as mastery of torts, contracts, and property law. Cooley is also home to the Kimble Center for Legal Drafting, an academic and public-service center with a board of internationally renowned advisors.
LANSING, Mich. – On Oct. 17, Cooley Law School, in partnership with the Michigan Department of Attorney General, Legal Services of South Central Michigan, and Safe & Just Michigan, held an expungement fair to aid in the removal of certain arrests and convictions from qualifying individuals’ public criminal records.
Cooley Law School will host an Expungement Fair from noon to 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17, in the law school’s lobby. During Cooley Law School’s expungement fair in March, volunteer attorneys and law students under the supervision of licensed attorneys assisted 122 guests with their expungement paperwork.
LANSING, Mich. – On Thursday, Oct. 2, the Cooley Law School Innocence Project recognized National Wrongful Conviction Day with a free panel discussion at the law school’s Lansing campus.
