March 4, 2005

Cooley Celebrates Black History Month

Lansing, Michigan — The Thomas M. Cooley Law School Rochester/Oakland University campus will present attorney Reginald M. Turner speaking on “Justice and the Dream of Martin Luther King Jr.” on Thursday, March 24. This event was rescheduled from its original date in February, which was cancelled due to snow.

The free presentation will be given at noon-2 p.m. in Ballroom B, Oakland Center, on the OU campus in Rochester.

Turner is one of 15 Clark Hill attorneys named in The Best Lawyers in America. He is president-elect of the National Bar Association and past president of the State Bar of Michigan. He is a member of Clark Hill's Executive Committee, its Labor and Employment Practice Group, and its Government Policy & Practice Group.

Mr. Turner regularly counsels clients in negotiation, drafting and administration of labor and employment contracts in the private and public sectors. He has handled a wide variety of litigation in state and federal civil courts, state and federal administrative tribunals, and grievance and interest arbitrations.

Mr. Turner has governmental experience at the federal, state and local levels, and he regularly counsels clients and advocates for them on important matters of public policy. He is a fellow of the American Bar Association, an honor reserved to less than one percent of lawyers in each state.

Founded in 1972, Cooley Law School is the largest law school in the country. Cooley has the second-largest enrollment of African-American students of any law school and the highest number of minorities overall in the United States. Cooley has three campuses across Michigan; its main campus in downtown Lansing, its downtown Grand Rapids/Western Michigan University campus in west Michigan, and its Rochester/Oakland University campus in southeast Michigan. In addition to the J.D. program, students at Cooley can also pursue a joint MPA/JD degree or an LL.M. in Tax or in Intellectual Property.