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Each year, the Grand Rapids Bar Association (GRBA) presents the 3 in 10 Award to three attorneys in their first 10 years of practice who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement, exceptional public service and significant contributions to the legal profession. Honored on May 16, this year’s three award winners, Christine Cameron, Kellen Dotson, and Katie Johnson, are each graduates of WMU-Cooley Law School.

WMU-Cooley Law School partnered with the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency (MVAA) and the Michigan Supreme Court (MSC) to introduce a new resource available to mentors and mentor coordinators working with veterans assigned to the state’s Veterans Treatment Courts (VTC).

On Saturday, May 11, WMU-Cooley Law School Lansing campus students, faculty, staff, and alumni went to Reutter Park in downtown Lansing, Michigan, to offer legal assistance and other social services to the city’s homeless.

Incoming students at WMU-Cooley Law School’s Grand Rapids campus participated in the school’s Honor Code Oath and Professionalism in Action program on May 3.

New students at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School’s Tampa Bay campus participated in a two-day orientation program on May 3 and 4

As part of orientation on May 3-4 at WMU-Cooley’s Auburn Hills campus, law students participated in the State Bar of Michigan’s Professionalism in Action program.

WMU-Cooley Law School student Cody Brock used the NCAA basketball tournament as an opportunity to engage fellow classmates to make a difference in the Grand Rapids community. Brock organized a March Madness bracket challenge with the purpose of collecting funds for a local non-profit organization.

Each year,  on May 1, WMU-Cooley Law School and the Grand Rapids Bar Association come together to celebrate Law Day, a day set aside to celebrate the rule of law. Law Day provides an opportunity to understand how law and the legal process protect our liberty, strive to achieve justice, and contribute to the freedoms that all Americans share.