Cooley Sues Law Firm and Bloggers Forum

[buckilaw]

If Cooley is represented by Cooley graduates, we should not only win this but be able to turn the school into a Chuck E. Cheese for TLSers.

Cooley is being represented by a Michigan grad and a GULC grad; not sure how they can bring this suit without laughing themselves to death.

[fanmingrui]

If Cooley is represented by Cooley graduates, we should not only win this but be able to turn the school into a Chuck E. Cheese for TLSers.

Cooley is being represented by a Michigan grad and a GULC grad; not sure how they can bring this suit without laughing themselves to death.

+1

[SchopenhauerFTW]

Others are less kind.

do not attend unless you: (1) get into a top 8 law school

i loled

shit's worse than QO

I'm glad I remembered that site. Didn't think that one blog could have such a huge obsession with both law school and feces.

[Jetsetter]

If Cooley is represented by Cooley graduates, we should not only win this but be able to turn the school into a Chuck E. Cheese for TLSers.

Cooley is being represented by a Michigan grad and a GULC grad; not sure how they can bring this suit without laughing themselves to death.

So..uh...They don't even trust their own graduates to represent them?!
I think that there does more damage to their reputation than any of the scambloggers. They are their own worst enemy.

[K.R.I.T.]

My guess is Cooley DID NOT seek representation from any Cooley graduates.

Damnit: (EDIT) Just saw the above posts confirming this.

[taxguy]

I am not a Cooley fan,but starting this law suit was VERY clever. Why? There are several reasons:
1. The best defense is a good offense. They saw the writing on the wall that the law firm was probably intending to bring a class action suit against them. This way, they nip this immediately and stop the potential suit.
2. Secondly the get great publicity from this, particularly if they win.
3. They put a chill on any unsupported negative factual comments about Cooley. This will certainly have the effect of reducing a lot of the negative comments and naysayers.

Bottom line: Whatever your opinion of Cooley,it really was a clever move. The only potential downside would be if the law firm can indeed prove its case regarding Cooley. That would be a huge public embarrassment for the law school. Even worse, if the law firm can prove that its alledged factual allegations were true, they would have one heck of a good class action case not to mention could affect Cooley's accreditation. Thus, it is a bit of a crap shoot by the law school. However, my opinion is that they made the right move in instituting this suit.

[loblaw]

It appears that page 8 of the complaint sites TLS. Am I right. Not enough time to read in-depth right now.

The first or the second complaint?

Yup, Rockstar cites a couple of paragraphs from its TLS profile if you see exhibit b of the summons.

[Ginj]

I am not a Cooley fan,but starting this law suit was VERY clever. Why? There are several reasons:
1. The best defense is a good offense. They saw the writing on the wall that the law firm was probably intending to bring a class action suit against them. This way, they nip this immediately and stop the potential suit.
2. Secondly the get great publicity from this, particularly if they win.
3. They put a chill on any unsupported negative factual comments about Cooley. This will certainly have the effect of reducing a lot of the negative comments and naysayers.

Bottom line: Whatever your opinion of Cooley,it really was a clever move. The only potential downside would be if the law firm can indeed prove its case regarding Cooley. That would be a huge public embarrassment for the law school. Even worse, if the law firm can prove that its alledged factual allegations were true, they would have one heck of a good class action case not to mention could affect Cooley's accreditation. Thus, it is a bit of a crap shoot by the law school. However, my opinion is that they made the right move in instituting this suit.

THE ELUSIVE TAXGUY RETURNS.

[j12]

It looks like Cooley is going after Anonymous.

I wonder if its the same Anonymous that posts here all the time

[kazu]

It appears that page 8 of the complaint sites TLS. Am I right. Not enough time to read in-depth right now.

The first or the second complaint?

Yup, Rockstar cites a couple of paragraphs from its TLS profile if you see exhibit b of the summons.

Is there any way this'll affect TLS - or Ken?

[jarofsoup]

If you are a defendant on what grounds could you counter sue?

I have a hard time believing that damages can be proven. Especially when the school has such poor ranking and opinion is not slander.

[TheFactor]

unsupported negative factual comments

um what?

[TommyK]

I am not a Cooley fan,but starting this law suit was VERY clever. Why? There are several reasons:
1. The best defense is a good offense. They saw the writing on the wall that the law firm was probably intending to bring a class action suit against them. This way, they nip this immediately and stop the potential suit.
2. Secondly the get great publicity from this, particularly if they win.
3. They put a chill on any unsupported negative factual comments about Cooley. This will certainly have the effect of reducing a lot of the negative comments and naysayers.

Bottom line: Whatever your opinion of Cooley,it really was a clever move. The only potential downside would be if the law firm can indeed prove its case regarding Cooley. That would be a huge public embarrassment for the law school. Even worse, if the law firm can prove that its alledged factual allegations were true, they would have one heck of a good class action case not to mention could affect Cooley's accreditation. Thus, it is a bit of a crap shoot by the law school. However, my opinion is that they made the right move in instituting this suit.

I'm not sure the brilliance of this move is undeniable. Sometimes when you're a scam artist marketing an inferior product to thousands of unsuspecting kids, the correct move is not always to bring national attention to the allegations.

I'm also unconvinced this will have any chilling effect on negative comments against Cooley. It's the Internet, baby!

And sometimes the best defense is actually just a really good defense.

[Verity]

I am not a Cooley fan,but starting this law suit was VERY clever. Why? There are several reasons:
1. The best defense is a good offense. They saw the writing on the wall that the law firm was probably intending to bring a class action suit against them. This way, they nip this immediately and stop the potential suit.
2. Secondly the get great publicity from this, particularly if they win.
3. They put a chill on any unsupported negative factual comments about Cooley. This will certainly have the effect of reducing a lot of the negative comments and naysayers.

Bottom line: Whatever your opinion of Cooley,it really was a clever move. The only potential downside would be if the law firm can indeed prove its case regarding Cooley. That would be a huge public embarrassment for the law school. Even worse, if the law firm can prove that its alledged factual allegations were true, they would have one heck of a good class action case not to mention could affect Cooley's accreditation. Thus, it is a bit of a crap shoot by the law school. However, my opinion is that they made the right move in instituting this suit.

I'm not sure the brilliance of this move is undeniable. Sometimes when you're a scam artist marketing an inferior product to thousands of unsuspecting kids, the correct move is not always to bring national attention to the allegations.

I'm also unconvinced this will have any chilling effect on negative comments against Cooley. It's the Internet, baby!

And sometimes the best defense is actually just a really good defense.

+1. If anything this will make Cooley an even bigger laughing stock. Just look to posts ITT for proof.

[rangers0412]

The people running cooley are geniuses. Go to guidestar and look at their 990, 5.8m revenues over expenses which includes 6.5m of depreciation and a 2.8m stock loss. The people attending, eh not so much.

[firemed]

My admittedly somewhat ignorant opinion is that this can only go somewhere good.

[SchopenhauerFTW]

It appears that page 8 of the complaint sites TLS. Am I right. Not enough time to read in-depth right now.

The first or the second complaint?

Yup, Rockstar cites a couple of paragraphs from its TLS profile if you see exhibit b of the summons.

I did not see that. I printed out the complaint without the exhibits (I was trying to use as little paper as possible). TLS as a whole probably won't be affected, since it's a forum to discuss these things, and not a malicious scam blog. Though who knows what might happen to individual users.

[buckilaw]

I am not a Cooley fan,but starting this law suit was VERY clever. Why? There are several reasons:
1. The best defense is a good offense. They saw the writing on the wall that the law firm was probably intending to bring a class action suit against them. This way, they nip this immediately and stop the potential suit.
2. Secondly the get great publicity from this, particularly if they win.
3. They put a chill on any unsupported negative factual comments about Cooley. This will certainly have the effect of reducing a lot of the negative comments and naysayers.

Bottom line: Whatever your opinion of Cooley,it really was a clever move. The only potential downside would be if the law firm can indeed prove its case regarding Cooley. That would be a huge public embarrassment for the law school. Even worse, if the law firm can prove that its alledged factual allegations were true, they would have one heck of a good class action case not to mention could affect Cooley's accreditation. Thus, it is a bit of a crap shoot by the law school. However, my opinion is that they made the right move in instituting this suit.

All that is great and all. But I'm fairly sure you can't serve process to "anonymous persons" via the internet. This is not a serious suit, it's a publicity stunt. Although it would be hilarious if they tried to give the defendants notice through a PM or something.

Also, the firm they hired actually does have Cooley grads working there; not having a Cooley grad on the case looks kinda bad.

[071816]

Fuck for-profit law schools.

[prezidentv8]

Fuck for-profit law schools.

Angry looking monkey in your avatar + this comment makes me lol.

[Bitey]

You all are hereby sued for speaking ill of the number 2 law school in the land- Cooley.

[fanmingrui]

Fuck-for-profit law schools.

FTFY to reflect the future of the legal profession.
http://abovethelaw.com/2011/06/all-rise ... n-session/

[scammedhard]

FTFY to reflect the future of the legal profession.
http://abovethelaw.com/2011/06/all-rise ... n-session/

Forget about the future... it's the present that looks bleak!

[Samara]

Rockstar05 responds!
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[SchopenhauerFTW]

It looks like Cooley is going after Anonymous.

I wonder if its the same Anonymous that posts here all the time

Rockstar05 responds!
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Why wouldn't Cooley contact Rockstar05 before they filed the lawsuit?