Can you picture yourself practicing law?  What might your legal practice look like? The Center for Practice and the Dean’s office have launched Practice Views this year, to help students see what lawyers REALLY do in different areas of law practice.  So please join us for the: International Legal Practice View Monday, November 17, 2008 in Room 118; 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Panel Presentation; Discussion; Light Dinner We asked; you answered; we’re delivering! In response to our email earlier in the semester, more than 50 students expressed interest in international legal practice. So, Professor Cogan has assembled a distinguished panel of Cincinnati attorneys with international legal practices: Felix B. Chang (Dinsmore & Shohl), Joseph J. Dehner (Frost Brown Todd), and John B. Pinney (Graydon Head and Ritchey). They will discuss and take questions concerning their individual practices (which range from complicated international transactions to international litigation and commercial arbitration), how they anticipate international practice developing in the future, and the key skills that those who aspire to practice in the international area should acquire. Please RSVP as soon as possible to lori.strait@uc.edu. Employment Litigation Law Practice View Friday, November 21, 2008 in Room 114; 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch; introductions; practice demonstration; Q & A, practice description. College of Law graduates, Lisa Loring and Jon Allison, both lawyers at Freking and Betz – a premier Cincinnati employment law firm – will let us see how they prepare a client for deposition and then how they represent that client in deposition in an employment discrimination case. Please RSVP as soon as possible to lori.strait@uc.edu. *************************** Watch for Practice Views in Spring ’09: we are working on bringing you a REAL probate court custody trial and a medical malpractice case, as well as visits to a downtown firm and defense clinic.

 

Dealing with the Difficult: On Emotion and Psychology for Client Counseling and Negotiation This course will enable participants to apply insights from recent research on the impact of emotion and psychology on reasoning, decision-making and communication. December 11, 2008 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Lawyers Present, So Present Well This seminar is designed to enhance the effectiveness of professionals’ presentations to internal and external audiences. December 11, 2008 1:30 - 5:15 p.m.

Great on Your Feet and in the Moment: How to Listen, Think, and Speak to the Unexpected Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to practice strategies and skills within simulated legal practice contexts. December 12, 2008 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

 

What is fair settlement value? How can I help my client understand the risks involved in this case? How can I persuade the other side or an insurer that our settlement offer is reasonable, even if their argument has some merit?

Decision Analysis offers a way to map a lawyer's, client's, or neutral's judgments about what might happen, what the chances are, what results will flow from twists of fate along litigation or transactional paths, and thus, what might be reasonable negotiation proposals.

• The first workshop day will teach the basic "how tos" for legal practice, working with case problems and applying the method in client contexts.
• The second workshop day will teach participants to use the method for more complex legal problems, covering advanced applications such as sensitivity analysis, risk tolerance, measuring intangibles, and nuances in structuring that impact case preparation, strategy, and client response.

Presenter Profile

Professor of Clinical Law Marjorie Corman Aaron teaches introductory and advanced decision analysis at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and directs the College of Law's Center for Practice. Professor Aaron has taught decision analysis courses at Hamline University School of Law and at North Carolina Central University School of Law and has conducted decision analysis workshops for the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution and the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution as well as law firms and corporations.

Professor Aaron the author of an award winning article on "The Use of Decision Analysis in Mediation Practice," in Negotiation Journal (1994), co-author of "Decision Analysis," Chapter 11, in Golann's Mediating Legal Disputes (Aspen, 1996) and author of "Finding Settlements with Numbers, Maps, and Trees," in The Handbook of Dispute Resolution, Michael Moffit and Robert Bordone, eds. (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2005) 202-218. She is also co-author of a new book chapter on evaluation in mediation and decision analysis in a forthcoming mediation book by Professor Dwight Golann, and will appear in its accompanying DVD demonstrating the use of decision analysis in mediation.

Professor Aaron is also an experienced mediator, originally with ENDISPUTE, Inc. (now JAMS) in Boston, and since 1998, in private mediation practice in Cincinnati. She has used decision analysis as part of mediation practice for more than twenty years. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Professor Aaron practiced civil and criminal litigation in Boston before entering the field of dispute resolution. She served as Executive Director of The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School before joining the faculty at the College of Law.

View Professor Aaron's CV

Workshop Information

• Agenda 8.21.08
• Agenda 8.22.08
• Description
• Registration Form

Still in the planning stages, MAP is a project of the Center for Practice in Negotiation and Problem Solving. Recognizing that classroom training alone does not make a mediator, MAP will be designed to close the gap between training and competence.

MAP will provide selected apprentices with on mediation experience in actual cases under the guidance of an experienced professional mediator. The program will provide observation of mediations, co-mediations and solo mediations with observation, personal mentors, feed- back, and exposure to various areas and models of mediation over a period of nine months. Supervised practice experience will be combined with participation in an advanced mediation seminar series addressing particular challenges in mediation skills and strategy. These seminars will also be open to professional mediators and will introduce apprentices to the mediation community.

Advanced Mediation Seminar Series
Before any formal "launching" of the apprenticeship program, the MAP board will offer the Advanced Mediation Seminar Series in March 2006. The Advanced Mediation Seminar Series will be offered for CLE credit, and are projected to raise funds needed for creating MAP to provide the highest quality experience for apprentices selected and enrolled.

MAP Board Members and Planning Committee include: Cathleen Kuhl, Mary McLain, John Cruze, and Marjorie Aaron.