Cooley Law announces faculty changes for new year

Cooley Law School Professor Lauren Rousseau has been named an Assistant Dean at the school's Auburn Hills campus, while Professor and Assistant Dean Martha Moore has moved from the Auburn Hills campus to the Ann Arbor campus. Both changes took effect Sept. 1, 2010. Rousseau joined the Cooley faculty in January 2004. She teaches Civil Procedure I and II and a general externship class at Cooley. Before joining the law school she was vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary for Plastech Engineered Products, Inc., of Dearborn, Mich. Her career has also included five years as a senior litigation attorney in the Office of General Counsel for Ford Motor Company and five years as an associate attorney at the Detroit law firm Dykema Gossett. Moore joined Cooley in 2004. Before joining the law school faculty, Moore was a partner and shareholder in the firm of Moore & Pozehl, P.C., in Southfield, Mich., where she concentrated her practice in the areas of legal ethics. Her career has also included time as ethics prosecutor for the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission, private practice, and as an assistant district attorney in Durham County, N.C. Moore is also vice chairperson of the Attorney Grievance Commission. Three professors were named at the Cooley Law School Auburn Hills Campus. E. Christopher Johnson Jr., Director of Cooley Law School's LL.M. program in Corporate Law, has been promoted to Associate Professor effective Sept. 1, 2010. He previously served as a Visiting Professor. Also promoted from Visiting Professor were Monica Navarro, who was named an Associate Professor in May, and Toree Randall, who was named an Assistant Professor in the Research and Writing Department effective Sept. 1. All three faculty members teach at Cooley's Auburn Hills campus. Johnson joined Cooley in 2009. He previously served as Vice President and General Counsel to General Motors North America. He is a recognized leader in efforts to increase diversity in the legal profession and provide pro bono legal services, serves as co-chair of the Access to Justice Subcommittee of the State Bar of Michigan's Judicial Crossroads Taskforce, and as co-chair of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association Foundation. Johnson was recently appointed as chair of the American Bar Association's Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline. Navarro served as a Visiting Professor December 2008-May 2010, joining the full-time faculty in May. She teaches Civil Procedure I and II, and Health Law, serves as a general externship supervisor, and a faculty advisor to the Hispanic Latino Law Society and to the Debate Society at the Auburn Hills campus. She is also a member of the CLEO faculty. Before joining Cooley, Navarro was in private practice, most recently as a principal member at Frank, Haron, Weiner and Navarro in Troy, Mich. Since 2009, she has served as Special Counsel for the firm. Randall's appointment took effect Sept. 1. She has served as a Visiting Professor at Cooley since 2009, teaching the first-year legal writing course. She previously served as an Assistant Professor of Research, Writing, and Advocacy at Ave Maria School of Law 2007-2009, and as an Adjunct Professor at Cooley teaching Advanced Writing. From 2000-2007, she was a legal research training consultant for LexisNexis, teaching online research at the University of Michigan Law School and Ave Maria. Professor Randall also served as an Associate Attorney with Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, PC, 1996-2000. Published: Fri, Sep 3, 2010

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