WMU-Cooley Law School’s Grand Rapids campus holds honors convocation
WMU-Cooley Law School students were recognized during the school’s Grand Rapids campus Honors Convation on Friday, July 20, for outstanding academic achievement, professionalism and leadership roles with various student organizations.
The convocation began with opening remarks from WMU-Cooley graduate Lindsay Canan, who was formerly with Bos and Glazier, but is now an attorney at Westshore Law in Grand Haven. Canan said that it was during her time as a staff assistant in the United States Senate when she learned to love the law and how it could shape and impact our country, and how it could define and mold legislation to help people.
During her remarks, Canan gave the award winners some practical advice she gleaned from her own experience, and from pooling other graduates’ opinions. She advised the upcoming attorneys to work hard, try everything, find their support person, remember the real world is out there, and to own their success.
“Remember that this law school education, this achievement, is something earned and it can never be taken from you,” Canan said, noting her excitement to someday call them fellow attorneys and colleagues.
Students Ashley Anderson and Sorinna Griffin were the recipients of the Leadership Achievement Award, which acknowledges students who have consistently, comprehensively and effectively provided leadership in a variety of capacities. The award is intended to be the culmination of a student’s participation in leadership activities while at WMU-Cooley.
Anderson, from Grand Rapids, served as secretary of the Children’s Law Society at WMU-Cooley, a member of the Organization of Women Lawyers, and both a senator and events coordinator of the Student Bar Association. She has served as a volunteer and volunteer intern for the WMU-Cooley Volunteer Corps, and a student employee for the law school’s Enrollment and Student Services department.
Griffin, from East Cleveland, Ohio, has been actively involved as vice president of the Christian Legal Society, secretary of the Student Bar Association, and vice president of the Black Law Students Association. She has also served as a volunteer in the Cooley Volunteer Corps and has been employed by the Enrollment and Student Services department.
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