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Cooley Law School Sued Over Its Supposedly 'Misleading Employment Stats'
from the so-that's-why-it-sued dept
We recently wrote about how the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, whose sole actual claim to fame appears to be that it takes on more students than any other law school, was suing some online critics. It had actually filed two lawsuits, one was against some online critics, and the other was against a law firm that had clearly been sniffing around some Cooley practices. Well, now the other shoe has dropped and, as ShellMG points out, that same law firm has sued Cooley in a class action lawsuit, claiming that the school posts false claims about its postgraduate employment rates. This is, clearly, what Cooley was trying to stave off with its original lawsuit, since in its lawsuit against the Kurzon Strauss law firm, it highlighted a message posted to a legal board asking students to come forward with information about Cooley's employment stats. Of course, the fact that Cooley sued first (with, as many people pointed out, lawyers who graduated from other schools) kind of makes you wonder what the school is hiding. That is, rather than wait to see if the law firm actually had anything, Cooley filed what could be described as a SLAPP suit, in that it appears it sought to stop the law firm from actually getting its message out to former students. It certainly makes for an interesting defamation claim. Can you accuse a class action law firm of defamation for reaching out to find people who had a bad experience?
In the end, I still think that Cooley comes out of this looking terribly. Suing critics never looks good. And now its stats are likely to get a lot more scrutiny. I'm curious how comfortable Cooley is with that...
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Trying to hush things up usually means not drawing more attention to the issue.
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Are you asking if they're cooley with it?
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Terribly what? Oh, you meant 'terrible'.
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Say you own Restaurant A. Two blocks away is Restaurant B, and they serve the same types of things you do. You take out a half page ad in every local newspaper you can find that says: "Have you developed a rash or open sores around your mouth after eating at Restaurant B? If so contact Finklstein, Smith + partners at 555-1234. Large class action settlement may occur."
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Tuition on par with or above top-tier schools. I need not fill in the rest of the relevant comparisons.
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