Cooley Auburn Hills Campus

Associate Dean John Nussbaumer BIO

Cooley Law School is excited to offer students the opportunity to earn their law degree at three different locations across Michigan. I would like to take a moment to highlight our program at Auburn Hills.

We currently offer the resources of the nation’s largest law school to approximately 600 students who are served by full-time, resident faculty members, a complete law school library and staff, and a caring and dedicated student support services staff. Our goal is to provide you with a rigorous educational experience that will challenge you to acquire the knowledge, skills, and ethics you will need to competently and conscientiously represent the very best interests of the clients you will one day serve.

With the acquiescence of the American Bar Association, we are now able to offer our full, 90-credit curriculum at the Auburn Hills campus. We currently have 22 full-time, resident faculty members, 2 deans, 2 clinical staff attorneys, 15 administrators and support services staff, and 9 librarians and library staff to help meet the needs of our Auburn Hills students. We offer morning, afternoon, evening, and weekend classes to meet the needs of people who want to pursue law school and a legal career. We also offer clinical programs in family law and domestic violence, elderlaw and estate planning, criminal prosecution, and civil mediation, plus traditional law school co-curricular activities such as Law Review, the Cooley Mock Trial Competition, and the Cooley First-Year Moot Court Competition, and a growing list of student organizations.

We have a rigorous, but caring student-centered faculty with a wealth of real-world experience and many professional contacts in the legal and business worlds. They have a client-centered teaching philosophy that will provide you with the knowledge, skills, and ethics you will need to practice law in the 21st century. And we are committed to helping you pass the bar examination and begin your legal careers. Our students have excelled not only academically, but also in the many pro bono and community service programs that we believe are part of our service obligations as lawyers, and they have a positive, cooperative, and unselfish attitude that we believe makes a very positive contribution to our learning environment.

We would be pleased to meet with you, answer any questions you may have, give you a tour of our facilities, arrange for you to sit in on one of our classes, and provide you with the opportunity to meet with our students, faculty, and staff. Please feel free to contact me personally at nussbauj@cooley.edu or contact Campus Coordinator of Enrollment and Student Services, Val Schnable, at schnablv@cooley.edu.

Sincerely,
John Nussbaumer
Associate Dean at Auburn Hills
January 7, 2008

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