Thomas M. Cooley Law School

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.

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.

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!

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.

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".