When Reda Taleb (McLean Class, 2015) talks about “giving back,” she isn’t just reciting a slogan — she’s living by example. The daughter of immigrants from Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, Taleb’s parents, along with her six older siblings, laid roots in Dearborn’s south end, an area known for its pollution-emitting factory smoke stacks and community of Arab Americans seeking the “American Dream.”
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Death is a difficult subject with which lawyers in certain practice areas deal regularly. Probate practitioners and estate planners, personal-injury lawyers handling wrongful-death cases, and prosecutors and defenders handling homicide cases all maintain and manage relationships with either the dying or family members and friends of the dead.
While perhaps the most well-known path after law school is taking the bar exam and becoming a litigation attorney, that is far from the only option for those with law degrees. Many law school graduates establish outstanding and successful careers that have little to do with being in a courtroom. When you combine the knowledge, skills and ethics you gain during your legal education and the resources of your network of over 20,000 graduates around the world, you are well-equipped for almost any leadership position. Here are seven career options that take place outside the courtroom.
If you’re in law school, you’re there for a reason, not on a whim. Maybe you have always had a passion for the law and couldn’t wait to embrace it as a career. Or perhaps you thought a law degree would help you improve your chances for advancement in your current job. Or you thought you could help others as an attorney, but you’re not sure in what ways. Now that you are on the way to a law degree, it’s time to think about specializing and choosing a concentration.
Post-graduate studies in any program are a huge commitment, but law school is especially challenging simply by its nature — the law is complex and difficult. Becoming a lawyer takes dedication, time and sometimes just sheer will power to meet all the demands and do well. So, when considering law schools, it pays to make sure you choose one that fits you, your life circumstances and your personal preferences. If you are seeking a law school that is as much an experience as it is an education, Cooley Law School has a lot to offer.
The recent National Jurist article called What it takes to pass today's nasty bar exam didn't surprise Cooley Law School Professor Mark Cooney. Not one bit.
Cooley graduate Chanelle Manus grew up watching a lot of sports on TV, mostly because she knew that was a great way for her to spend time with her dad. He was very interested in sports, and she always wanted to be just like her dad.
Shelika Tate married her high school sweetheart 19 years ago, and for that same amount of time, she was told that she would make a great lawyer. Her husband would tell her it was because she was a "really logical thinker" and she would "reason through every choice and decision." She even had others say the same. But at the time Tate wasn't interested. At least not at first.
When considering law schools, everyone has different hopes, expectations and needs. But one desire all potential students have in common is to be taught by great legal minds who put education first — people who are expert attorneys in good standing, who have already spent years in the legal trenches, and who are committed to preparing each and every student to be superior attorneys and outstanding citizens.
What’s more important to a successful legal education and career than brains, drive or love for the law? If you ask Professor Carly Wolf at Cooley’s Tampa Bay campus, it’s planning, pure and simple.
