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At its founding, Cooley intended to be a “populist law school,” providing a low-cost legal education to students who might otherwise find the dream of lawyering out of reach.
The Thomas M. Cooley Law School was established by a group of lawyers and judges led by Thomas E. Brennan, a former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (from 1969–1970). The school was named in honor of Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1824–1898), a prominent 19th-century jurist, who was also a former Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice ...
But whatever the accomplishments of its most distinguished alumni, the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, once the largest law school in the U.S., does not have a...
Cooley Law, however, has secured a deserved reputation as the worst of the worst, churning out scores of the most uncompetitive graduates into an extremely competitive profession that has nowhere near the ability to absorb them all. Cost of education is extremely high relative to expected salaries. Many graduates struggle to even pass the bar.
Cooley’s 2021 graduates had the lowest two-year bar passage rate of any ABA-accredited law school: 55.87 percent, according to data from the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to...
Western Michigan University’s Thomas M. Cooley Law School had the lowest two-year bar passage rate for 2021 graduates among ABA-accredited law schools, according to data released Monday by the...
Thomas M. Cooley Law School is a private, independent, non-profit, 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt law school dedicated to teaching students the knowledge, skills, and ethics needed to succeed in both the law and its practice and to be valuable members of society. Remote video URL.
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Though saddled with a negative reputation, Cooley really is a flexible institution offering the opportunity of a free legal education to good students (you don’t even need to be a great student...
Cooley's reputation in the academic community is hardly stellar: in the most recent USNWR rankings, the school received a peer-review score of 1.4, and a lawyers/judges-review score of 1.8 (both out of 5). The school also has one of the highest student-to-faculty ratios in the country, at 23.5.