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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
  
Cooley Law School Dean, Professors Appointed to State Bar of Michigan Character and Fitness Committee Positions
December 9, 2009 - The Thomas M. Cooley Law School today announced that the dean of its Ann Arbor campus and faculty members from its Lansing campus have been appointed to serve on the State Bar of Michigan's (SBM) Character and Fitness Committees throughout the state. [full story]
 Cooley Law School Dean Recognized By The Black Law Students Association
November 18, 2009 - The Thomas M. Cooley Law School Black Law Students Association (BLSA) recently recognized Assistant Dean Tracey Brame with its annual Faculty Appreciation Award. [full story]
Cooley Law School Assistant Dean Elected to the Grand Rapids Bar Association's Board of Directors
August 31, 2009 - Tracey Brame, assistant dean of Cooley Law School’s Grand Rapids campus, has been elected to the Grand Rapids Bar Association’s board of directors for a three-year term. [full story]
Cooley's Professionalism Orientation Program
The State Bar of Michigan is partnering with Thomas M. Cooley Law School to promote professionalism in the legal profession by sponsoring a Professionalism Orientation with all incoming Cooley law students.
The program features small group discussions among veteran attorneys, judges, and incoming students on a range of topics related to ethics and professionalism. [full story]
 Ed Pappas, President of the State Bar of Michigan and Gerald Rosen, Chief Judge of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, addressing students during the pilot “Professionalism Orientation” sponsored by Cooley and SBM. |
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The Honorable Leo Bowman, Oakland County Circuit Judge, talks with students at the Auburn Hills Campus during the professionalism orientation. |
Cooley's Professionalism Publications
 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.
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. |
 "Jury Trials and the Media"
Thursday, January 14, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
Lansing Campus - Room 911
Presented by Andrew Abood, Attorney at Law
Mr. Abood will share his experience leading high-profile cases and working with the media during jury trials.
 "Sailing Your Own Ship"
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, Noon
Grand Rapids Campus - room 529
Presented by Barbara Craft, Attorney and World Explorer
Ms. Craft will share her story on how her law degree gave her the flexibility to pursue her dream of sailing the Atlantic (four times), and spend years living on a sailboat in Europe, and still maintain a law career and private practice.
Congratulations to the winners of the Great Deeds Award for 2009:
- Julie Clement - Lansing Campus
- Danielle Hall - Grand Rapids
- Audra Foster - Auburn Hills
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.
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.
 Cooley students are visibly enforcing the Honor Code. "Student Exam Proctors" are involved with helping our regular exam proctors during first term midterms and practice exams. "Our hope is that by seeing other students acting as exam proctors, new students will understand that our own student body takes pride in, and enforces, the Honor Code," says Amy Timmer, Associate Dean of Students and Professionalism.
 Deck the Halls Cooley students and staff helped the Grand Rapids Senior Neighbors Center decorate for the holidays. The Cooley volunteers put up Christmas trees, lights, wreaths, and front window displays. Children from West Michigan Academy of Environmental Science made paper snowflakes which the volunteers displayed in the windows and cards for the older adults to enjoy.
 Thanks and Giving Students, faculty and staff at the Auburn Hills campus collected and distributed complete Thanksgiving dinners and Walmart gift cards to 200 less-fortunate families in the City of Pontiac.  Contributors and partnering sponsors included the Oakland County Bar Association, Straker Bar Association, Cooley-Auburn Hills and Cooley Ann Arbor Student Bar Associations, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Law Offices of Duane S. Weed, National Pan-Hellenic Council, the Kappa Foundation, and Cooley Law school alumni.
 Light the Night Charity Walk Cooley students and staff participated in the annual Light the Night charity walk in Royal Oak, Michigan to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Michigan. A total of $885.00 was raised by the Cooley Auburn Hills team to build awareness of blood cancers and raise funds for cures.
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