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Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Law school in Lansing, MI
Reviews: 18 | Overal Rating: Average
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Review Left On 02/28/2020
Dane Aris

Doesn’t care about its students at auburn hills location! Never closes when ice storms or bad weather comes, glad they are closing. Lansing is a good location
Review Left On 02/28/2020
Chuck Lundy

A lawyer from this school committed perjury and broke attorney client privilege. I expect this law school will shut down soon. Go anywhere else
Review Left On 02/28/2020
RC Wiesenmayer II

I am a graduate of the Hooker class of 1992. My experience at Cooley Law school was very valuable and rewarding. I am a trial lawyer practicing for more than 25 years. The trail workshop classes, moot court, and the 60+ elder law clinic provided me with real life experience that allowed me to hit the ground running after graduation. I would highly recommend WMU Law.
Review Left On 02/28/2020
pago pago

Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen - a proud Cooley grad... Is there anything
else that needs or can be said?? As goes Cohen...
Review Left On 02/28/2020
Insaf

I graduated TMCLS in 1997. Passed the bar first time, and scored high enough on the MultiState exam that Washington, D.C. invited me to be a member of their bar, which I did. Then I practiced law for many years, and afterwords worked for the U.S. govt (Dept of State, USAID, DoD) and did very interesting and rewarding things. I am now 55 and semi retired raising 3 young children. Without Cooley, I very likely would not have achieved as much as I have. So all those Cooley haters are probably former students who couldn't handle the high educational standards of Cooley.
Review Left On 02/28/2020
Victor Renfro

I came to know five grads, four who ended up in Virginia and one in New York state. Two ended up in Fortune 500 head offices, one as an Assistant County Prosecutor, one in in a law office of about 4 or 5 lawyers, one in a NY State commission on disabilities. It was very challenging & cost money but they are very pleased.
Review Left On 02/28/2020
Lake Girl

I was in the first day school graduating class of Cooley in 1976. My three children and late former husband watched proudly as I crossed the stage to accept the diploma achieving a dream I had not thought possible. For then, women in law, and were a rarity and with children almost non existent
Though my lsat scores were high, as a commuter and mother of three, the 8 am to noon schedule allowed an opportunity that meshed with my responsibilities unlike the spread out class schedules of other Michigan schools. There were others in the class combining school with work or other responsibilities. Many of the professors were demanding and accomplished such as Lieutenant Governor and later Supreme Court Justice Brickley, Justice Fitzgerald and Professor Needham. The expectations were challenging and not all met them. But Cooley gave us an opportunity which other schools did not. We, that is, most of my classmates not only passed the bar but ranked above most other schools as I recall and most became not only good lawyers and some distinguished. Cooley alumni include state and federal confessional representatives, a governor, state appellate and trial judges as well as federal. I served as an Assistant Attorney General with an approximate 98% win rate which included high profile cases where I was opposed by teams of prominent counsel from "white shoe" firms. The demanding expectations of Professors Needham, Brickley and others served me well in meeting the challenges faced during my career. As an Alumni, I have participated in ethics forums required of incoming students. These will be schooled in high ethical expectations unlike what I sadly and at times shockingly experienced of opposing counsel who were graduates of more prestigious institutions.
Though Cooley admits so called borderline applicants, I applaud their continuing willingness to give them the opportunity that other schools do not.
Those that are worthy will succeed and others will at least have been given a chance to try.
Review Left On 02/28/2020
damien Smith

A few years ago, Cooley was ranked as the second best law school in the nation according to (Judging the law schools). I wonder how other law schools like the University of Michigan or the IVY Leagues felt about this. Second, Valparaiso, Charlotte, Whittier, and some other law schools received similar "out of compliance" letters from the ABA, but didn't file a lawsuit against them. Cooley filed. Hmmmmm!
Review Left On 02/28/2020
Ryan Miller

I graduated from Cooley in 02- Passed the bar and now a working attorney & business owner. At Cooley its not about who you know its about what you know. They don't weed people out in the admission process, we weed them out at the "wailing wall".
Review Left On 11/28/2019
Charles Sanders

Thank you Cooley for letting me into law school. Im now a licensed attorney in Texas. I would not have been in this position with Cooley law school.
Review Left On 07/28/2019
Alex Zilinski

Though I have not attended this school I believe it is funny that some negative reviews are simply attacks on Michael Cohen. One bad attorney graduates from here and it's a bad school. Here's a news flash, bad attorneys graduate from every law school imagainable, quit being incompetent.
Review Left On 02/28/2018
T M Edwards

I like being a law student, the professors, the Lansing campus facilities, the earnest study of law. Cooley is fundamentally sound and provides a good value for the cost to attend. The ABA is a useless institution of fat cat lawyers who couldn't craft a contract, litigate a case or properly advise a client if their collective hides depended on it. They're just regulatory bureaucrats albeit self-construed. "Regulation" of law schools is like looking for ethics in journalism --a fictional enterprise. Challenge the self-appointed "regulators"; that's just smart.
Review Left On 02/28/2018
pago pago

Did y'all see how the school is fighting with the ABA over disclosing Cooley's failure to comply with requisite standards? It's ironic that
after 30 years of allowing the school to disregard the accreditation standards, that when ABA FINALLY goes to enforce something, Cooley
sues to stop the ABA... Stay Away!!
Review Left On 02/28/2018
Patrick Fragel

I graduated in '93 and passed the bar with an 80 percent on the first attempt. Impressive for me, since my LSAT was in the range of 55 percentile. The classes are tough, and you need to study hard everyday. It pays off. If you let up on your studies, it will cost you.

My goal was to open a private firm. I accomplished that, after a prominent internship and entry level trial attorney job. I then hung my shingle, and 20 years later, I can say, I never felt let down by the Cooley LS education I earned.

Ignore the naysayers, whiners. Set challenging career goals. If you put your heart and mind into your studies, the effort pays off - Cooley Law School delivers! Go for it!
Review Left On 02/28/2017
Mark Oxford

Great place. I am glad I attended this law school.
Review Left On 02/28/2017
Alex Panetta

Do NOT go to this school. You will be required to take a 0 credit hour course your first semester at this school. This will bring your course load up to 6 classes to qualify as a full time student and stay on track to graduate in three years. This was a complete waste of time and I would have gone to a different school had I known that this class was required. As a first term student, time is a luxury that most of us don't have. This 0 credit hour course takes 39 hours out of your first term. I suggest going to ANY OTHER school that doesn't require this class.
Review Left On 02/28/2017
TRUTH Forever

Don't go here. It's shady. The place operates like a high school. This school is more interested in your money, than creating and shaping good lawyers. It's a waste of time and money. If you want to feel like you are in high school again, then this place is for you. There are a few Professors who have a high school mentality and operate off of their feelings instead of being professional. Do yourself a favor and find somewhere else that is not shady and don't operate like a high school. Anywhere is better than this place. It's called the worst law school for a reason because it sucks. Don't invest your money in this bs. Instead, go to a better institution that operates like a normal law school. REPEAT: NOT A GOOD CHOICE! MOVE ON!
Review Left On 02/28/2017
Courtney Krompier

Very shady practices at this school. They are all about the profit. I hate a student threaten me and they did nothing about it. Horrible school.

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