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January 2009
Representation in Mediation Competition
Date & Time: TBA
December 11-12, 2008
Three Workshops for Lawyering Excellence
Review past workshops from the Center for Practice.
August 21 & 22, 2008
Decision Analysis Workshop for Lawyers
Review student competitions, hosted by the Center.
August 25, 2008
Practice View: Trial in GameStar, Inc. v. Fun Learning, Inc. and Andrew Gilligan, with attorneys Joseph D. Heyd and Carl J. Stich, Jr.
Contact Information
p: 513-556-0114
f: 513-556-1236
Education
Areas of Interest
Marjorie Corman Aaron is Professor of Clinical Law and Executive Director, Center for Practice, at the University Of Cincinnati College Of Law, teaching courses in negotiation, client counseling, mediation and mediation advocacy, and decision analysis. She has taught decision analysis, mediation advocacy, and mediation as guest faculty at the Dispute Resolution Institutes of Hamline University and North Carolina Central State University. Professor Aaron was formerly the Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School ("PON"), where she also taught negotiation and mediation. She is a sustaining academic member of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, and serves on CPR's ADR Training Faculty.
Professor Aaron has been an active mediator, arbitrator, and trainer in negotiation and dispute resolution for more than 20 years. She served as a Vice President and Senior Mediator at Endispute (now known as JAMS-ADR), a panel mediator for the Middlesex Multi-Door Courthouse, an arbitrator for the John Hancock Class Action Dispute Resolution Process, and a mediator panelist for the Merrill Lynch Claims Resolution Process. In private mediation practice in Boston and now in Cincinnati, Professor Aaron has mediated disputes involving general commercial contracts, employment, age and gender discrimination, business torts, products liability, personal injury, complex construction and design claims, corporate partnership, environmental claims and allocation issues, real estate and business valuation, real estate trusts, and medical, legal and other professional malpractice.
Professor Aaron has served on the Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management, the Ethics Commission of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, the Board of the Academy of Civil Trial Mediators, and the Conference and Publications Committees of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution.
Professor Aaron designs and teaches workshops on mediation, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, and litigation decision analysis for law firms, corporations, and governmental organizations. She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, cases, DVDs, and guides in the field of negotiation, mediation and other forms of dispute resolution.
A 1978 graduate of Princeton University and a 1981 graduate of Harvard Law School, Professor Aaron practiced civil litigation at the Boston firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar and criminal litigation as an assistant district attorney in Plymouth County before entering the field of dispute resolution.
Download a copy of Professor Aaron's Curriculum Vitae (pdf).
Publications
Negotiating Outcomes: Pocket Mentor Series, (Harvard Business School Press, 2007).
“Assisting Settlement Decisions with Numbers, Maps and Trees,” in Handbook on Dispute Resolution (Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation, 2005)
“Do’s and Don’ts for Mediation Practice,” Dispute Resolution Journal, 11, 2: Winter 2005, selected for inclusion in Best Articles Published by the ABA, GP SOLO, 23,2: March 2006.Mediators at Work: Termination Tempest (Video, Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation, 2004) (with Dwight Golann)
Mediators at Work: Breach of Warranty (Video, Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation, 2000) (with Dwight Golann)
“At First Glance: Maximizing the Mediator's Initial Contact,” 20 Alternatives (October & December 2002)
“The Right Frame: Managing Meaning and Making Proposals,” 2 Harvard Management Communication Letter 1-4 (1999).
“Negotiating,” in Harvard ManageMentor, (Harvard Business School Publishing, 1999).
“Using Evaluations in Mediation,” 52 Dispute Resolution Journal 26-34 (1997) (with Dwight Golann).
“Evaluation in Mediation,” in Mediating Legal Disputes 267-305 (Dwight Golann, ed., 1997).
“Decision Analysis as a Method of Evaluating the Trial Alternative,” in Mediating Legal Disputes 307-334 (Dwight Golann, ed., 1997) (with David P. Hoffer, Esq.).
“The Value of Decision Analysis in Mediation Practice.” 11 Negotiation Journal 123 (1995). (Awarded Second Prize for Excellence by the Center for Public Resources (CPR) Institute for Dispute Resolution).
