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Michigan Soldier in Iraq to be Sworn In as an Attorney Via Live Video Conference

June 30, 2009 - A recent law school graduate serving in Iraq will be sworn in as a new attorney this week – with over 6,300 miles between him and the chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who will preside at the swearing-in ceremony. [full story]

     
Professor Otto Stockmeyer  

Cooley Professor Otto Stockmeyer Named 'Exemplary Legal Writing Honoree' by Green Bag

June 23, 2009 - Thomas M. Cooley Law School Professor Norman Otto Stockmeyer has been named an Exemplary Legal Writing honoree by Green Bag for his article To Err Is Human, To Moo Bovine: The Rose of Aberlone Story. Green Bag is a quarterly journal dedicated to good writing about the law. [full story]

     
Martha Moore  

Cooley Law School Announces New Assistant Dean of Auburn Hills Campus

June 17, 2009 - The Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced today that Associate Professor Martha Moore has been promoted to assistant dean of Cooley’s newly expanded Auburn Hills campus. Moore replaces Joan Vestrand, who will lead Cooley’s new campus in Ann Arbor as its associate dean. [full story]

     
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Cooley Graduate Awarded A 2009 Equal Justice Works Fellowship

June 15, 2009 - Thomas M. Cooley Law School graduate Christina Nguyen was recently awarded a 2009 Equal Justice Works fellowship, sponsored by Steptoe & Johnson LLP. [full story]

     
Joan Vestrand  

Cooley Law School Names Top Official Of Its Newly Announced Ann Arbor Campus

June 10, 2009 - The Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced today that Joan Vestrand, professor of law and assistant dean at the Auburn Hills campus, has been promoted to the position of associate dean and will lead the school’s efforts at its Ann Arbor campus. [full story]

     
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Cooley To Open Campus In Ann Arbor

June 8, 2009 - One hundred thirty-eight years after Thomas M. Cooley became the University of Michigan Law School’s second dean, the law school that bears his name announced that it will open a campus in Ann Arbor in September 2009. [full story]

     
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Tax Experts To Discuss How To Recognize When A Client Has Criminal Exposure

June 2, 2009 - The Thomas M. Cooley Law School Graduate Tax Program is co-sponsoring an expert panel discussion entitled "If Your Client’s a Criminal: Recognizing When a Tax Client Has Criminal Exposure." The event will be held Thursday, June 4, 2009 at Cooley Law School’s Auburn Hills campus, 2630 Featherstone Road. A networking reception will begin at 5 p.m. and the panel discussion will be held from 6:20 p.m. to 8 p.m. [full story]

     
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Cooley Opens New Addition, Doubles Size Of Auburn Hills Campus

May 18, 2009 - The Thomas M. Cooley Law School today announced the opening of a 65,000-square-foot addition, doubling the size of its Auburn Hills facilities at 2630 Featherstone Road. Dedication of the project, which is part of Cooley’s $36 million investment, is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on May 28 and will include remarks from State Bar of Michigan President Edward H. Pappas. [full story]

     
Cooley Law School 5K Race for Education 2009  

Cooley Law School’s 10th Annual 5k Race For Education Set For June 5

May 7, 2009 - The Thomas M. Cooley Law School will hold its 10th annual Race for Education on Friday, June 5 at 7:30 p.m. in downtown Lansing. The 5K event has raised more than $70,000 for educational institutions since it began in 2000. [full story]

     
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Cooley Tax Competition Winners Named

May 1, 2009 - Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s Graduate Tax Program and the Taxation Section of the State Bar of Michigan were pleased to honor the winners of the 6th Annual Thomas M. Cooley Law School Writing Competition at the State Bar of Michigan’s 22nd Annual Tax Conference held on Wednesday, April 29 in Plymouth. [full story]

     
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SBM Partners with Cooley Law School to Lead Professionalism Orientation Program for New Students

April 28, 2009 - Real-world ethical dilemmas and professional conduct will be the focus on Friday, May 8, when the State Bar of Michigan and the Thomas M. Cooley Law School will partner to launch a professionalism orientation program for incoming students. The event is scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m. at Cooley’s Auburn Hills campus at 2630 Featherstone Road. [full story]

     
Michigan Judge's Guide to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act  

Cooley Law School Teams With Honigman Attorneys To Create Michigan Judge’s Guide To The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act

April 30, 2009 - A new effort among the Thomas M. Cooley Law School and attorneys with the Detroit Office of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP (Honigman) is bringing clarity to SCRA’s application for Michigan’s courts and, ultimately, providing another layer of support to Michigan servicemen and women. [full story]

     
Judge Bernard A. Friedman  

Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers: Judge Bernard Friedman to convene federal court at Cooley’s Auburn Hills campus on May 13

April 24, 2009 - United States District Judge Bernard A. Friedman will convene federal court at Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s Auburn Hills campus, 2630 Featherstone Rd., on May 13, 2009 at 2 p.m., giving students a front-row seat to a motion call of civil and criminal cases pending on the court’s docket. [full story]

     
Professor Nancy Wonch
Head of Public Services Aletha Honsowitz
Assistant Professor Stevie Barackov
 

Cooley Professors, Staff Member, Honored for Service

March 24, 2009 - Cooley Law School Professor Nancy Wonch, Grand Rapids Head of Public Services at the Law Library Aletha Honsowitz, and Assistant Professor Stevie Barachkov at Cooley’s Auburn Hills campus have been honored with the Great Deeds Service by the law school’s Center for Ethics, Service, and Professionalism. [full story]

     
Associate Professor Paul Marineau  

Cooley Professor Named to City Board of Review

March 19, 2009 - Cooley Associate Professor Paul Marineau has been appointed to the Board of Review in Douglas, Mich., by the Douglas City Council. [full story]

     
Professor Norm Fell  

Cooley Professor Honored as Leader in the Law

March 19, 2009 - Cooley Law School Professor Norman Fell has been named a Leader in the Law by Michigan Lawyers Weekly. [full story]

     
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Cooley Law Team Edges Out 143 Competitors In National Client Counseling Competition

March 17, 2009 – Thomas M. Cooley Law School students Lisa M. Catapano (Auburn Hills campus) and Lindsey A. Elya (Lansing campus) finished in sixth place out of 149 teams from across the United States in the 2009 American Bar Association (ABA) Law Student Division’s National Client Counseling Competition, held March 13-14 in Durham, N.C. [full story]

     
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Cooley Law Students Compete In International Moot Court Competition

March 16, 2009 – Thomas M. Cooley Law School students Joshua Mikrut,Deanna Natoli, Aaron Porter, Rusudan Shervashidze and Simon So recently competed in the Midwest Super Regional of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Chicago on Feb. 12-15 at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. [full story]

     
E. Christopher Johnson, Jr.  

Cooley To Offer New Advanced Corporate Law And Finance Degree; Former General Motors Executive Joins Law School To Lead Program

January 15, 2009 – The Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced today that it will offer a master of laws (LL.M.) degree in corporate law and finance, and has tapped E. Christopher Johnson Jr., former General Motors (GM) North America vice president and general counsel, to join its faculty and lead the development of the advanced degree program. [full story]

     
Judging the Law Schools 2008  

10th Annual Judging the Law Schools is Released

January 12, 2009 – Harvard Law School made it six consecutive years atop the ranking of the nation’s law schools, according to the 10th edition of the nationally known publication, Judging the Law Schools. [full story]

     
Tim Murphy, Assitant VP of Operations  

Tim Murphy Hired as Assistant Vice President at Cooley Law School

January 9, 2009 – The Thomas M. Cooley Law School announces that it has hired Tim Murphy, of Haslett, as Assistant Vice President of Operations. In this position, he will help with the management and supervision of the operations division of the law school. [full story]

     
Brian Thompson, Access Control Supervisor  

Access Control Supervisor at Cooley Law School Wins Award

January 9, 2009 – The Thomas M. Cooley Law School announces that its Lansing campus Access Control Supervisor, Brian Thompson of Guardsmark, was the recipient of the company’s September 2008 Supervisor Achievement Award for his attention to detail and leadership by example. [full story]

     
Judge Joe Brown, Nationally Recognized MLK-Case Judge and TV Personality
 

Public Invited To Jan. 19 Event Featuring Joe Brown, Nationally Recognized MLK-Case Judge and TV Personality

January 7, 2009 – Judge Joe Brown, who reviewed the last appeal of Martin Luther King Jr.'s convicted assassin, will speak to Cooley Law School students and the community on Jan. 19 as part of Cooley’s 2009 Martin Luther King: Equal Access to Justice Day events. Judge Brown is scheduled to speak at 1 p.m. in the Cooley Law School Temple Building, 6th floor Auditorium, 217 S. Capitol Ave., in downtown Lansing. [full story]

     
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Cooley Law School Applications Reach New High

January 6, 2009 – Cooley Law School Assistant Dean of Admissions Stephanie Gregg has announced that applications to the Thomas M. Cooley's J.D. program recorded a new high in 2008. Cooley's 5,790 applications were a 4.4 percent increase over 2007 and broke the previous J.D. record set in 2006 at 5,746. Total applications, which include applications to Cooley's graduate law programs, also broke the 2006 record. [full story]

     

 

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