The departure of Ave Maria School of Law for Florida spelled opportunity for the fast-growing Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

Ave Maria's former building on Plymouth reopens this month as Cooley's Ann Arbor campus. Cooley president Don LeDuc defines its target market as "the U-M undergraduate who wants to go to law school, can't get into U-M law school, and wants to stay in Ann Arbor."

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