Law Educators Suing Lawyers who Hand Out Letters

Stopping by the website Citizens for Voluntary Trade this morning I read about a recently filed lawsuit.  The lawsuit was filed by Thomas M. Cooley Law School, out of Lansing, MI, against the American Bar Association (ABA).

Cooley, according the billboards which have started appearing along Michigan roadways, has become the largest law school in the country.  They are suing the ABA over accredidation issues regarding a couple of their satellite programs.

What I find amusing about this, is, not so long, speaking with attorneys I know in this area about Cooley, would bring smiles of derision and deprecating comments.  You know, wink, wink, yeah, Cooley is a “law school” alright, and Yale is just another paper mill.  I can’t figure out if the ABA’s reluctance to accredit Cooley is because they shamelessly billboard advertise, or because Cooley is draining funds from supposedly more “legitimate” law schools.

I wonder if Cooley practices “Moot Court."

More details here.

Posted by on 03/31 at 04:30 AM

  1. The most interesting aspect of this case is that the chair of the committee overseeing the accreditation is the dean of one of Cooley’s three main competitors.

    A few blocks from me the ABA’s Antitrust Section is having their annual get-together. I’ve always found it strange that one of the few areas where a genuine monopoly exists is legal education, and its directly controlled by the same ABA that tells the rest of us how evil dominant businesses are.

    Posted by Skip Oliva  on  03/31  at  05:58 AM

  2. That is interesting, Skip.  What’s good for the goose, isn’t good for the gander, in this case.

    Posted by  on  03/31  at  06:07 AM

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