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WMU-Cooley Law School’s Auburn Hills campus presented a check in the amount of $5,301 to Detroit Public School’s Osborn Preparatory High School graduate Robert Nettles.

In honor of Constitution Day, on Thursday, Sept. 14, the Hauenstein Center, the Koeze Business Ethics Initiative, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum hosted "Debating the Constitution."

WMU-Cooley's Grand Rapids campus mock courtroom was transformed into a real courtroom on Sept. 12, as U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Maloney heard dispositive motions in two substantial federal civil lawsuits, before a full gallery of law students.

WMU-Cooley Law School Director of Academic Services and Associate Professor Emily Horvath, along with WMU-Cooley graduates Susan Cook, Laura Genovich, Mary Pigorsh, Sarah Ostahowski and Cinnamon Rice, were recently honored by Michigan Lawyers Weekly as members of the Class of 2017 Women in the Law.

Incoming students at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School’s Auburn Hills campus took the law school’s honor code oath and participated in the Professionalism in Action (PIA) program during orientation, Aug. 30–31.

“Lawyer Storytelling: A Sacred Craft,” a collection of 27 short stories created during a summer workshop series at the Grand Rapids campus of WMU-Cooley Law School, has now been published.

Ashley Hart, a student at WMU- Cooley Law School’s Tampa Bay campus, recently accepted an externship within the legal department for the U.S. Protection team of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

The Business, Entrepreneurial and Tax Law Association of Western Michigan University Cooley Law School’s Grand Rapids campus recently organized a donation drive to provide essential school supplies to local students in need.