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Thomas M. Cooley Law School is continuing the implementation
of its award-winning
Professionalism Program.
Cooley has launched the Center for Ethics, Service, and Professionalism,
which is dedicated to the following ideals:
- Lead by modeling and teaching ethics
- Foster and encourage service
- Practice professionalism
- Commit to our communities
 E. Christopher Johnson, Director of LL.M. Corporate Law and Finance and member of the Cooley Professionalism Team was recently named as the Chair of the Michigan United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Leadership Board. His main responsibilities will be overseeing UNCF fund-raising and other activities over the next two years for the State of Michigan. Detroit is right behind New York and Chicago as the highest revenue producing cities for the UNCF.
Chris has also been named to the Honorary Board of the Restore Foundation. The foundation’s mission is to: Restore Hope and Dignity by helping individuals overcome substance abuse to the benefit of themselves, their families and society by continuing the Oakland County Drug Courts. Judge Wendy Potts is the President of the Foundation.
Cooley's Professionalism Plan
 Reflections of a Lawyer's Soul: Institutional Experience of Professionalism at Thomas M. Cooley Law School by Amy Timmer and Nelson Miller
Creating
a Culture of Professionalism in Law School: The Thomas
M. Cooley Law School Experience
 How
Cooley successfully implemented the 18 initiatives from the
original plan. This program was selected for the 2006
Professionalism Award from the ABA Standing
Committee on Professionalism. Read
about the ABA Professionalism Award.
Professionalism Plan:
Professionalism - Taught, Learned, and Lived in Law School
 Eighteen
proposed initiatives, developed by Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
Endorsed by the Student Bar Association, Faculty, Staff,
Board of Directors, Alumni Association, and Board of Governors,
and supported by the State Bar of Michigan.
We will not lie, cheat, steal, plagiarize, or tolerate those who do.
This is the commitment that all entering students take, along with our faculty and staff, at every orientation. Before they can begin classes at Cooley Law School, a Michigan judge administers this oath, and new students are introduced to Cooley’s Honor Code.
Nominate someone for a Great Deed!
Nominations are accepted
from anyone who would like to see a Cooley
staff or faculty member recognized for outstanding community
service. Congratulations to the winners of the Great Deeds Award for 2008:
- Nancy Wonch - Lansing Campus
- Aletha Honsowitz - Grand Rapids
- Stevie Barachkov - Auburn Hills
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Michigan's Guide to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA)
 Download a copy of the Michigan's Guide to Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (pdf).
The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) offers special protections to soldiers against civil actions like divorce and foreclosure while they are deployed.
Cooley and attorneys with Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP (Honigman) bring clarity to SCRA's application for Michigan's courts and, ultimately, provide another layer of support to Michigan servicemen and women.
Stories from the Street: The Experiences of Two Main-Street Lawyers
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Noon – 1:00 p.m. (lunch provided)
Grand Rapids Campus – Room 529
Presented by attorneys Kenneth L. O'Deen and Thomas J. Dignan
Presentation by State Bar of Michigan President, Ed Pappas
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Noon – 1:00 p.m. (lunch provided)
Auburn Hills Campus – Room 145
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Photo courtesy of R Tipton |
Walk for Mental Health - Cooley students and members of the professionalism team participated in the seventh annual Stomp Out Stigma–Walk for Mental Health in Grand Rapids. Cooley walkers raised over $600 for the West Michigan Mental Health Foundation. The May 16th event strives to raise awareness that the stigma associated with mental illness is one of the greatest barriers that keeps people from seeking help.
 Service to Soldiers: Legal Assistance Referral Program continues to make headlines and help soldiers:
Grand Rapids Associate Dean Nelson Miller and Karen Rowlader, Assistant Director for The Center for Ethics, Service, and Professionalism, staffed a National Guard re-integration workshop in Grand Rapids to assist area National Guard members recently returned from Afghanistan and Iraq. Cooley students helped interview returning troops and their spouses who are having civilian legal concerns. The event kicked off with a presentation made by student Casey Walker regarding his experiences with re-assimilating after deployment.
Selfridge Air National Guard Base is deploying 108 Air National Guardsmen and women. Service to Soldiers assisted the JAG office in preparing wills and POAs for these servicemembers. Detroit-area attorneys Elias Escobedo and Keith Cermak, along with recent Cooley graduate Henry Kopicko, assisted in the event.
Volunteers for Service to Soldiers met with five returning National Guard servicemembers last Saturday at a re-integration event in Kalamazoo. Associate Dean John Nussbaumer was accompanied by one student and offered consultations.
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