Michael Cohen Got His Degree From The Worst Law School In The Country

[RandySF]

Cohen earned his law degree in 1991 from Thomas M. Cooley Law School, which later became affiliated with Western Michigan University. To say that Cooley is bottom-tier doesn’t begin to describe the problems; Cooley is the sub-basement of the bottom-tier, and then digging furiously through the floor deep into the substrata below.

Cooley has been accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) since the mid-1970s, but that accreditation is on increasingly shaky ground. According to ABA Standard 501, “a school shall not admit an applicant who does not appear capable of satisfactorily completing its program of legal education and being admitted to the bar.”

The foundation of Cooley’s problems are its unbelievably lax admission standards, accepting almost 86% of applicants in 2016. The entering class that fall had a median GPA of 2.90 and median LSAT score of 141 (bottom 15th percentile of test takers).

In several blog posts lamenting the ABA’s failure to end “predatory admission practices,” law professor and chair of the National Advisory Council for Law School Transparency David Frakt described Cooley’s 2015 entering class as “statistically the worst entering class of law students in the history of American legal education at an ABA-Accredited law school,” cementing the college’s status as the “law school of last resort.”


https://www.redstate.com/sarah-rumpf/2018/04/10/trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-got-degree-worst-law-school-country/

[Major Nikon]

1. Its not as if the standards for working for Trump and the Russian mob are high

[not fooled]

2. Thugs need other skillz

than fancy book larnin'.

[mnmoderatedem]

3. he's nominally an attorney

mostly just a thug.

[Gothmog]

4. Who is surprised by this?

It was clear that this idiot did not go to a tier one law school

[D_Master81]

5. Didnt know Trump U gave out Law degrees

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Yes, here he is passing out the degrees....

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[Gothmog]

7. For this thread

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

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8. Above The Law: The 10 Worst Law Schools In The Country (2017)

LAW SCHOOLS

The 10 Worst Law Schools In The Country (2017)

What depths will these law schools sink to in order to keep their doors open?

By STACI ZARETSKY

Dec 18, 2017 at 2:58 PM

The American Bar Association recently released Standard 509 reports from every accredited law school in the country, and there’s much to be learned from the information that can be found within them. Based on the law school enrollment data in these reports, such as incoming students’ LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs, we can determine which law schools are dabbling in what David Frakt, who serves as chair of the National Advisory Council for Law School Transparency, refers to as “predatory admissions practices.”

Frakt has analyzed the most recent Standard 509 reports available, and he’s come up with a list of what he calls the “bottom 10 least selective law schools in the country.” That’s a mouthful, so we’re going to go ahead and call them the “worst.” Here are the five — or actually six, thanks to a tie — “worst” law schools in the country:

1. Thomas Cooley Western Michigan U – 146/142/139. Cooley has already been found out of compliance with Standard 501 by the ABA. They recently lost in their efforts to get a restraining order against the ABA to keep this secret from prospective students and did little to improve their chances of having that decision reversed with this year’s embarrassing incoming class, with similar credentials to last year’s (147/141/138). But the school is still making a fortune with an entering class of 458, third largest in the country (after Georgetown and Harvard). Cooley accepted 85.6% of applicants, far and away the highest acceptance rate in the country. (Vermont, with 159 entering 1Ls, was second, with a 78.8% acceptance rate.)
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Staci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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9. Michael Cohen May Have Tapes Which Brings Us Into 'Galatically Stupid' Territory

CRIME

Michael Cohen May Have Tapes… Which Brings Us Into ‘Galatically Stupid’ Territory

Who does this? No lawyer does this. LAWYERS DON'T DO THIS!

By ELIE MYSTAL
at 11:19 AM

The Washington Post reports that President Trump’s associates are worried because Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, had “some proclivity to make tapes.” Apparently, Cohen would regularly tape conversations with his associates, and the Trump people don’t know who else he might have recorded.

I am aware of no words or curses in English, Elvish, or Orcish that adequately capture the drooling stupidity of a “lawyer” who makes voice recordings of conversations with his client. It’s simply not done. They don’t “teach” you not to do it in law school, just like they don’t teach you where to poop in high school. YOU ARE JUST SUPPOSED TO KNOW BY THE TIME YOU GET THERE.

Since I honestly don’t know what to say, here are just some random quotes from lawyers I know on Facebook who I told the news to while waiting for my coffee to brew:

• “O.M.F.G.”
• “THERE ARE NO DUMBER HUMAN BEINGS ON EARTH”
• “This reminds me of that Onion article about the guy who wrestled the crocodile.” {Ed note: That was a classic.}*
• “Thank you for playing should we, or should we not, listen to the advice of the galatically stupid… MICHAEL COHEN.”

My own thoughts turned to this.

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Trump’s allies worry that federal investigators may have seized recordings made by his attorney {Washington Post}

Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at [email protected]. He will resist.

* This, maybe? Study: Alligators Dangerous No Matter How Drunk You Are

Possibly this: Looking Back On My Life, I Guess My Biggest Regret Is Trying To Fight That Alligator 5 Minutes Ago