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Cooley Law School to Host Nationwide Meet & Greet Information Sessions for Prospective Students

Cooley Law School will host several Meet & Greet Information Sessions for prospective students throughout the country in March. Those who pre-register online and attend a Meet & Greet and are later accepted to Cooley will receive a scholarship of over $14,000, and all entrance fees will be waived. The law school will hold sessions in New York, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan, Florida and Toronto, Canada. Each event will start at 6:30 p.m. with a brief informational presentation from the Cooley Law School Admissions Office, followed by a question-and-answer session to ask questions about law school, student life, and what to expect as a Cooley student. Attendees will learn about the law school admissions process, scholarships/financial aid, scheduling options, Cooley’s campuses in Lansing, Mich., and Tampa, Fla., and the variety of resources available to Cooley's student community. Registration is required: https://info.cooley.edu/meet-and-greet-2025-registration. Meet & Greet Dates & Locations: March 11: Buffalo/Amherst, NY - Reikart House, 5000 Main St, Amherst, NY 14226 March 13: Toronto, ON - Courtyard Toronto Downtown, 475 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4Y 1X7, Canada March 13: Detroit, MI - Westin Southfield Detroit, 1500 Town Center, Southfield, MI 48075 March 18: Orlando, FL - Marriott Orlando Downtown, 400 W Livingston St, Orlando, FL 32801 March 19: Miami, FL - AC Hotel Miami Wynwood, 3400 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33137 March 20: Chicago, IL - Courtyard Chicago Downtown/River North, 30 E Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60611 March 20: Grand Rapids, MI - Hilton Garden Inn Grand Rapids East, 2321 E. Beltline SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 March 24: Houston, TX - Houston Marriott Energy Corridor, 16011 Katy Fwy, Houston, TX 77094 March 26: Northern New Jersey, NJ - Residence Inn West Orange, 107 Prospect Ave, West Orange, NJ 07052 March 27: Long Island, NY - Residence Inn Garden City Long Island, 700 Garden City Plaza, Garden City, NY 11530 Mar 11 2025

Cooley Law School Partners with Michigan Attorney General's Office to Host Expungement Fair on March 21

Registration is encouraged and available online for those wishing to have convictions expunged.

Cooley Law School Holds Orientation for New Students in Evening and Weekend Programs

New students in Cooley Law School's evening and weekend programs attended orientation on January 3-5, 2025. Orientation included new students at Cooley's Lansing and Tampa campuses to welcome the Dorean Koenig class to the Hilary (January) Semester.

International Audience Joins Cooley Law School’s Kimble Center For Legal Drafting Webinar

LANSING, Mich. RIVERVIEW, Fla. – On November 14, Cooley Law School’s Kimble Center for Legal Drafting hosted a webinar that drew viewers from Poland, Nigeria, Canada, the UK, and throughout the US. The webinar—“Clear Legal Writing: New Resources, Technology, and Cases”—focused on various aspects of legal writing in plain language. It was cosponsored by Clarity, an international organization devoted to clear legal writing.

Cooley Law School Moot Court Team Wins Best Brief at Florida Competition

RIVERVIEW, FLA. – Cooley Law School’s Moot Court team won the Best Brief award at Florida State University’s Claude Pepper Elder law Moot Court competition, held Nov. 7-9, at FSU College of Law in Tallahassee, Fla. The team consisted of law students from Cooley’s Tampa Bay campus: Gabriella Logiudice, Safa Kudia, and Colby Weron. During the competition, 20 briefs from 20 Moot Court teams were evaluated, including teams from George Washington University, Baylor University, University of Chicago, Chicago-Kent, Stetson, University of California San Francisco, and Texas Tech. Law students from Cooley’s Lansing, Michigan, campus also competed in the competition, including: Arjan Malushi (brief writer), Larry Westcomb, and Jasmin Guillen. The competition does not allow any help from outside sources with anything except the basics of brief writing. Teams could not talk with practitioners or professors about the legal issues raised by the fact pattern. For Cooley, Logiudice was the brief writer on the team, while Kudia and Weron conducted research and spent countless hours debating the structure of each argument. They progressed to the elimination rounds, and faced George Washington University in their elimination round and did not progress. “This competition draws some of the best Moot Court teams from around the country,” said Cooley Law School Professor Christine Zellar Church, who coached the Tampa Bay team. “All of our students learn so much from picking a fact pattern apart, researching the fine points of the law, writing a brief, and then engaging in oral argument with teams from other schools. We are all so proud of the hard work and excellence of our students.” Cooley Law School was founded on a mission of equal access to a legal education and offers admission to a diverse group of qualified applicants across the country. Since the law school's founding in 1972, Cooley has provided a modern legal education to more than 21,000 graduates, teaching the practical skills necessary for a seamless transition from academia to the real world. An independent, non-profit law school, accredited by both the American Bar Association and the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Cooley holds classes year-round at its Michigan and Florida campuses. Nov 15 2024

WMU-Cooley Hosts Presentation by Civil Rights Activist

WMU-Cooley Law School hosted civil rights activist Dr. Jerome Reide for the law school’s Social Justice Lunch Hour on June 30. Reide, who serves as the legislative liaison for the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, spoke about a variety of topics, including the need for students to become involved in their community and make society a better place. “We need to continue to make our society more inclusive, more diverse,” said Reide. He also stressed the importance of women’s rights and the need for lawyers to be part of the legislature to help shape policy. “Policy is a pendulum that swings right or left depending upon who's in the White House, Congress, and on the Supreme Court,” he said. A long-time civil rights activist, Reide served as the regional field director for the NAACP from 2009-2020, and was primarily responsible for advocacy management of its Midwestern units. He also served as NAACP’s National Field Operations deputy director, Midwest Region III director, and Special Contribution Fund regional development director. Additionally, Reide served as co-chair, committee member of Individual Rights and Responsibilities within the American Bar Association, and director of the Justice Initiatives Division at the State Bar of Michigan. He also served on the board of directors for the Sugar Law Center and the Beckwith Civil Liberties Fund. As the coordinator of ACLU’s Access to Justice Project, Reide coordinated a national study of landlord tenant courts and published the findings in a public policy report, “Justice: Evicted.” During his time as a consultant with Wayne County Commission’s Ways and Means Committee, he helped convene four annual conferences of governmental, community, corporate and academic policy makers to discuss economic development policy in Greater Detroit-Windsor, and Ontario, Canada. Additionally, Reide coordinated an international trade mission to South Africa to link the jobs, housing, education, arts, and cultural policy initiatives of the Mandela Administration with Detroit's leadership. Reide is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the American Bar Association, and the National Bar Association. He has taught at Bowie State University, Eastern Michigan University, and the State University of New York's Center for Labor Studies. Jul 07 2023

Cooley Law School found in compliance with American Bar Association’s Section 316