Cooley Law School takes over old Ave Maria campus

Ann Arbor trades Ave Maria Law School for Cooley Law School, and everybody is happy.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same. Goodbye, Ave Maria Law School. Hello, Thomas M. Cooley Law School. That's basically what 3475 Plymouth Road is saying this week.

Cooley Law School plans to take over the Ave Maria Law School building on the city's northeast side this fall shortly after the Catholic law school left to chase after Tom Monohan's parochial college dreams in Naples, Florida.

Cooley Law School officials see a smooth transition into the 84,500-square-foot building, since it was already retrofitted to be a school.

"Ann Arbor has great name recognition across the country," says Don LeDuc, president and dean of Cooley Law School. "We have a lot of out-of-state students."

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