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West Michigan high school students celebrated Law Day during a program led by WMU-Cooley Law School students and graduates at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.

Judge Cynthia M. Ward, 54-A District Court, and former WMU-Cooley assistant dean, administered the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School honor code oath to incoming law students on May 2. 

RIVERVIEW, FLA. – Graduates from WMU-Cooley Law School who passed the Florida Bar Exam had the opportunity to be sworn into the bar by Judge Daryl Manning of Florida’s 13th Judicial Circuit. Nine graduates participated in the ceremony held at WMU-Cooley’s Tampa Bay campus on April 19.

WMU-Cooley Law School’s Tampa Bay campus conferred Juris Doctor degrees on 37 graduates. During the law school’s April 20 ceremony, which was held at the University of South Florida Music Hall, Lashawn McQueen provided the valedictory remarks and the Hon. Nick Nazaretian, of the 13th Judicial Circuit in Hillsborough County presented the keynote address.

Western Michigan University Cooley Law School’s Board of Directors announced today that James McGrath, professor of law and associate dean for academic support and bar services at Texas A&M University School of Law, will serve as the law school’s next president and dean. McGrath becomes only the third president and sixth dean since the law school’s founding in 1972.

WMU-Cooley Law School’s Lansing campus and Cardboard Prophets, a street-based ministry and outreach organization that works with the homeless and families, will co-host its second Street Law Stand Down at Reutter Park in downtown Lansing on Saturday, May 11, from noon-4 p.m.

Dogs from Therapy Dogs International, an organization that brings qualified dogs and handlers to institutions where therapy dogs are requested, visited WMU-Cooley Law School’s Lansing campus on Monday, April 15, the start of finals week.

Charyn Hain, partner at Varnum Attorneys at Law; Donald Lawless, partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLC; and Karen Truszkowski, principal at Temperance Legal Group PLLC, were featured panelists during Western Michigan University Cooley Law Review’s annual symposium, The Changing Face of Title IX: An Eye on Gender Discrimination.