Marjorie Corman Aaron is Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Center for Practice at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, teaching courses in negotiations, client counseling, mediation, and decision analysis.
Ms. Aaron is an active mediator, arbitrator, and trainer in negotiation and dispute resolution in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a mediator panelist, sustaining academic member of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, and serves on CPR's ADR Training Faculty.
Ms. Aaron is also an arbitrator for national panel of the American Arbitration Association, the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution, and a regional mediator panelist for JAMS-ADR. She previously served on the Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management, the Ethics Commission of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, and the Publications Committee of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution.
Until July, 1998, Ms. Aaron was the Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School ("PON"), where she was also a lecturer teaching negotiation. Prior to joining PON, Ms. Aaron was a Vice President at Endispute (now known as JAMS-ADR) and a panel mediator for the Middlesex Multi-Door Courthouse. Ms. 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.
Ms. Aaron has designed and taught numerous workshops on mediation, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, and litigation decision analysis for law firms, corporations and universities. She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, cases, and guides in the field of negotiation, mediation and other forms of dispute resolution.
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Marjorie taught Decision Analysis at North Carolina Central University School of Law. She also attended American Arbitration Association Arbitrator training and was accepted on their national arbitration panel.
Marjorie presented three workshops for the New Zealand Government’s Leadership Development Center: Advanced Negotiation, Negotiation in a Nutshell, and Great on Your Feet. She gave a lecture on Decision Analysis in Mediation to Wellington, NZ’s LEADR branch (LEADR is the NZ and Australia lawyers’ ADR organization). She designed and delivered a Mediators’ Master Class for the mediators of NZ’s Building and Housing Department, headquartered in Auckland.
Marjorie participated in a panel discussion on When the Music Stops: How to Overcome "Insulting" First Offers, Bad Faith Refusals to Negotiate and Other Impasses in Bargaining at the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Conference. The panel discussed clips in a newly issued mediation DVD in which Marjorie was one of two featured mediators. Marjorie also presented teaching advice for her three phase simulation exercise, Bagger-Delishco, in the “Shoptalk” session of the Legal Educators’ Coloquium at the ABA Conference.
Marjorie conducted a workshop at the College on Making Mediators: An Intensive Practice Workshop for Attorneys and Other Professionals Who Mediate. Several of Marjorie’s articles were cited:
Marjorie served as a judge in the “Outstanding Short Articles and Blogs” category for the Annual Awards program of the CPR, International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. The award was presented at CPR’s Annual Winter Meeting on Jan. 15th. She also taught the Client Counseling Workshop at the College.
Marjorie’s Center for Practice presented three CLE workshops:
Marjorie offered a Practice View on Employment Litigation. She appears as one of two mediators in a new DVD, Skills of a Mediator, to be included with a forthcoming book on mediation practice by Dwight Golann to be published by the ABA.
Marjorie's articles, Decision Analysis as a Method of Evaluating the Trial Alternative, in Mediating Legal Disputes 307 (Dwight Golann, ed., 1997) (with David P. Hoffer), and The Value of Decision Analysis in Mediation Practice, 11 Negot. J. 123 (1995), were cited in Robert L. Haig, Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts (West, 2nd ed., New York Practice Series, 2008 Supp.).
Marjorie appeared on NPR's Marketplace Report in a segment on Selling Suits is Rewarding.
Marjorie presented three negotiation-related workshops, and gave a lecture on New Zealand Women Do (or Should) Negotiate, to staff from various New Zealand government ministry and agencies, sponsored by the New Zealand Leadership Development Center. Closer to home, she presented a half-day Negotiation training program for women attorneys at Hahn Loeser & Parks in Columbus, OH.
Marjorie and Betsy Malloy organized the UC Law Running Club and participated in the Flying Pig Marathon.
Marjorie presented a session on mediation practices entitled Breaking the Rules: The Truth About Consequences at the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution's Tenth Annual Spring Conference in Seattle (with Dwight Golann). Her articles, Decision Analysis as a Method of Evaluating the Trial Alternative, in Mediating Legal Disputes 307 (Dwight Golann, ed., 1997) (with David P. Hoffer); Do's and Don'ts for Mediation Practice, Disp. Resol. Mag. (Winter 2005); and The Value of Decision Analysis in Mediation Practice, 11 Negot. J. 123 (1995), were cited in Donald R. Philbin, Jr., The One Minute Manager Prepares for Mediation: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Negotiation Preparation, 13 Harv. Negot. L. Rev. 249 (2008).
Marjorie was a judge for the 2007 International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution Awards. The awards were presented at the organization's annual meeting in New York in January.
Marjorie conducted the first half of Making Mediators: A Intensive Practice Workshop for Attorneys and Other Professionals Who Mediate through her Center for Practice. The workshop is designed for experienced professionals, familiar with mediation as advocates, but less experienced in the neutral's role. Participants gain real mediator experience in complex mediations and challenging mediation problems.
Marjorie served as a judge for CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution annual award for professional articles. Her article, Using Decision Trees as Tools for Settlement, 14 Alternatives to High Cost Litig. 71 (1996) (with David P. Hoffer), was cited in Robert L. Haig, Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel (Thomson West, 2008 Supp.).
Marjorie published On Negotiation, in Negotiating Outcomes, part of Harvard Business School Publishing's Pocket Mentor Series.
Marjorie designed and facilitated three new CLE programs in conjunction with her Center for Practice in Negotiation and Problem Solving, drawing insight from acting, improvisation, communication, rhetoric, and debate for legal practice:Marjorie coached Keith Hagan and Laura Railing, who won the ABA Negotiation Regional Competition in Valparaiso Indiana. She was quoted in Dwight Golann, The Changing Role of Evaluation in Commercial ADR, 14 Disp. Resol. Mag. 16 (2007).
Marjorie participated in the Alumni Teach-In Day, as Eric Robbins (Class of 2001), Ulmer & Berne (Cincinnati, OH) and Clayton Kuhnell (Class of 2001), Dinsmore & Shohl (Cincinnati, OH), taught her Negotiations Class.
Marjorie convened UC's Negotiation Competition, with many Cincinnati lawyers judging ten student teams, to select the two teams that will represent UC at the ABA Regional Representation in Mediation Competition in November.
Marjorie presented Unreasonable Clients: When Lawyers Ask for Help - And When They Don't - What Can a Mediator Do? at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution's Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
Marjorie was appointed to serve on Governor Strickland's Ohio Judicial Appointments Regional Panel.
Marjorie completed teaching her Making Mediators Workshop, a CLE seminar for lawyers who want to learn to mediate. She coached and accompanied two student teams to the ABA Regional Representation in Mediation Competition at Michigan State.
Marjorie spoke on Academy to Action for Effective Negotiation Practice to the West Chester Chamber Alliance.
Marjorie co-taught the first segment of her Making Mediators CLE workshop, in which lawyers serve as mediators for students enrolled in the law school's Mediation Advocacy class.
With Adjunct Professor Jim Lawrence, Marjorie coached UC's regional winners in the ABA's negotiation competition in preparation for the National Competition. She also coached and traveled with two UC teams for the Regionals of the ABA's Client Counseling Competition. Marjorie conducted the intra-school Representation in Mediation Competition, selecting two teams to represent UC at the Regionals in March.
Marjorie's book chapter, Evaluation in Mediation, Mediating Legal Disputes (Dwight Golann, ed., 1997), was cited in John Lande, How Much Justice Can We Afford?: Defining the Courts' Roles and Deciding the Appropriate Number of Trials, Settlement Signals, and Other Elements Needed to Administer Justice, 2006 J. Disp. Resol. 213.
Marjorie Corman Aaron Professor of Practice and Director, Center for Negotiation & Problem Solving Marjorie taught a three-day workshop to the 2L class on Interviewing Counseling and Decision-Making with Professor Richard Reuben (Missouri-Columbia). She served as a judge for the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution awards for professional articles published in 2006 in dispute resolution. Marjorie designed and taught a two day workshop in Advanced Mediation and Mediation Advocacy for the CPR Institute with Amy Glass (Michigan Mediation Services).
Marjorie's article, Using Decision Trees as Tools for Settlement, 14 Alternatives to High Cost Litig. 71 (1996) (with David P. Hoffer), was cited in Robert L. Haig, Successful Partnering between Inside and Outside Counsel (West Group, 2007 Supp.).
Marjorie served as a judge for the professional articles award competition of the CPR Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.
Marjorie's article, The Value of Decision Analysis in Mediation Practice, 11 Negot. J. 123 (1995), was cited in Douglas H. Yarn & Gregory Todd Jones, Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practice and Procedure in Georgia (Harrison, 3rd ed., 2006).
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