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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 04, 2018, 08:48:12 pm
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Trump’s Lawyer Went to the Worst Law School in America
Michael Cohen’s alma mater has long been a punchline in the legal world.
By PHILIP SHENON
May 04, 2018
The roster of the school’s graduates includes federal and state judges, two members of Congress and several high-profile courtroom lawyers and business leaders.
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 reputation to match. And it never has.
Cooley may be, by some measurements, the worst law school in America. And its standing has not been enhanced by a flood of publicity about the quality of the legal work of its best known and, increasingly, most notorious alum: Michael D. Cohen, class of 1991, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and the target of a federal criminal investigation in New York that has clearly rattled Trump.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/04/trump-michael-cohen-lawyer-cooley-law-school-218318 (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/04/trump-michael-cohen-lawyer-cooley-law-school-218318)
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That's an awfully harsh title man 9999hair out0000
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I knew an attorney -- Harvard graduate -- who looked down his nose at graduates of less prestigious schools. When it came to the law, he was as dumb as a rock. I could write a better legal brief than he and I didn't go to law school.
Don't know whether Cohen is a less than stellar attorney because of the law school he attended or whether he is just incompetent and maybe crooked.
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In all fairness Trump never said he hires the best Lawyers only the best people.
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That's an awfully harsh title man 9999hair out0000
Not really. It's been consistently ranked among the worst for a long time - before anyone heard of Cohen or really believed Trump would run for prez. Here's an article from 2012 ranking it 7th worst.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/31/gulags-the-10-worst-aba-accredited-law-schools/ (http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/31/gulags-the-10-worst-aba-accredited-law-schools/)