Cooley Law School is to law schools, as a Garbage Scow is to the United States Navy.
Pardon me, comparing Cooley Law School to a Garbage Scow is an insult to Garbage Scows.
Lets try a another angle. Attending Harvard University vs attending your local 2 or 4 year Community College/State College. But that doesnât work either. If you attend the latter, you still get a reasonable quality education that will probably get you a decent career.
There is no way to compare Cooley to any other law school. Cooley Law School sucks, PERIOD. It is widely acknowledged by numerous recognized authorities as the worst law school in the country and has been recognized as such for many years. It admits a high percentage of its applicants, many clearly unqualified and spits out graduates, many of whom do not even pass the bar exam. It has had some quality graduates, but even the worst schools manage to graduate the occasional high performer.
Michael Cohen graduated from Cooley Law School. Somehow, this does not surprise me in the least.
Trump, you have money. And yet you hire somebody from Cooley.
I would be looking elsewhere for attorneys, perhaps:
Trump doesnât make it easy. He obviously has problems with listening and taking advice and reputable attorneys are unlikely to risk their reputations sticking their necks out for him.
Most attorneys, even those that pursue high yield fields such as personal injury law, generally have a decent ethical level. If you get too scummy and greedy, you usually end up stepping over the line and losing your license.
But when the attorney, having attended a bottom level school like Cooley and likely being at the âbarely adequateâ level of competence in his field, he is just as likely to step into trouble as successfully avoid it.
Maybe Safiel will comment but IIRC correctly Cohen graduated from Cooley in 1991 and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1992. Typically your law student coming out of school is going to take the bar during the summer of their graduation year for a couple of reasons. (a) Course work is freshest, and (b) they are hundreds of thousands of dollars in dept and need to get a job.
If Cohen wasnât admitted to the bar until 1992, then I hypothesize that he probably failed the bar exam and had to retake it at least one more time. Gets easier to pass after a âlook seeâ.
California Governor Edmund Gerald âGerryâ Brown retook and passed the California Bar exam a second time.
Bottom line: did the attorney graduate from an accredited school? Is he licensed to practice law in that state?
Oh, speaking of schools like Stanford, Harvard, Yale, personal experience: I was having eye trouble that involved a combination of very dry eyes and painful tears.
I was misdiagnosed by a Harvard grad opthomalogist. Still having the problem and on one occasion having to stay home from work, I got someone else.
Lady had done her undergrad in Italy, her D O in the states, but not an Ivy League school. She recommended some specific OTC drops, even gave a coupon, and that relieved the problem.
One gets a fine education from the Ivy League schools, but that doesnât mean theyâll be infallible or even better decision makers.
Those who retake the bar exam have a lower passing rate than those who take it the first time. To the tune of 50 percent. Meaning first time takes pass the bar at an 85% ClĂp. That number drops into the 40 and 50 percentile second time
I am not so much about where you went to school. Iâm more about what did you do with it afterwards.
By Safielâs standards (and I do not mean this to be derogatory, I admire Safiel a lot) I and many like me should subject to ridicule. I went to a community college, then attended USF but at the extension in my town. It took me ten years to get my degree because I worked full time and paid my way as I could afford it.
For my business I had to take the Florida Contractor exam. I sat next to many people whoâd built homes and worked in commercial projects with years of real life practical experience. Many had failed the exam several times over. They had the guts and the fortitude to keep going. I admired the hell out of them.
Florida actually has a pretty good quality system of formerly community colleges/now state colleges. And nothing wrong with going to school part time.
The schoolâs you went to are quality.
Cooley is a **** hole.
I went to Penn State myself. Both my sons went to Penn State. My daughter was an Ivy Leaguer (Penn), but in her case it was obviously justified. I did fine going to Penn State and so did my sons. There are obviously advantages to going to an Ivy League school, particularly if you are pursuing a legal or medical career, but it would be a ridiculous overkill for most people. I have hired plenty of people who have credentials from public university.
Mostly, this was a thread to bash on Cooley Law School.
I have nothing against the many quality public education institutions in this country. I attended one myself.
I suspect most looking for an attorney or medical professional arenât looking so much at where that person went to school, but
Are they currently licensed to practice law or medicine in that state, although the latter may not be worth considering as much as it is very difficult to lose physician licensure once granted, and, more importantly
do I or donât I instinctively feel comfortable with this individual?
Sources like Yelp can be helpful. One not so great review is one thing, but multiple? Better try someone else.
