WMU ending partnership with Cooley Law School
KALAMAZOO (AP) — Western Michigan University is ending its partnership with Cooley Law School.
Trustees voted recently to end the collaboration and wind things down over three years. The school won’t have WMU in its name.
The association began in 2013.
“The affiliation with Cooley made sense at a time when new ventures for extending the university’s reach could be explored and given time to mature,” said WMU President Edward Montgomery. “Today, the pandemic is impacting every aspect of our lives. ... As a result, we are focusing on our core mission as we chart a course for an even stronger post-pandemic WMU.”
Cooley once had nearly 4,000 students, with locations in Lansing, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Auburn Hills and Riverview, Florida. It will be down to Lansing and Florida next year, the Lansing State Journal reported.
State’s largest county suspends jury trials until January
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan's largest county is postponing jury trials until January.
Coronavirus cases are on an “upward spiral,” making it unsafe to hold trials, said Tim Kenny, chief judge at Wayne County Circuit Court.
Trials had resumed in late September.
In the Grand Rapids area, Kent County also has halted jury trials until January.
Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker said cases are piling up. There hasn’t been a jury trial since March.
Working to understand the dynamics of race among women lawyers
The American Bar Association will host the webinar “This Talk Isn’t Cheap: Guiding Conversations Toward Equity” on Monday, Nov. 16.
The webinar, from 1-2:15 p.m., is sponsored by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession.
The event features a panel discussion moderated by former commission chair Michele Coleman Mayes, general counsel at The New York Public Library.
It will focus on the “This Talk Isn’t Cheap” report, which explores the reasons why women of color have feelings of mistrust toward their white women colleagues, while also addressing challenges white women experience in attempting to understand the needs of their minority women colleagues.
The panel will incorporate the foundation of the comprehensive toolkit, which includes the report, a facilitators’ guide with discussion questions, a run-of-show description for the program and a bibliography of further resources to help women have conversations about racial dynamics in the workplace.
To register, contact Jennifer Kildee at 202.662.1732 or Jennifer.Kildee@americanbar.org.
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