The Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced recently that the American Bar Association’s (ABA) council on legal education and admissions to the bar accepted the recommendation of the accreditation committee to acquiesce in the Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s application to open a Tampa Bay-area campus in Riverview, Florida.

The Tampa Bay campus will begin offering evening classes in May 2012, followed by morning classes in September 2012 and afternoon classes in January 2013. All Cooley students will be eligible to attend classes at the Tampa Bay campus.