Marjorie Aaron

Marjorie Corman Aaron is Professor of Practice and Director of the Center for Practice, at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, teaching courses in negotiation, client counseling, trial practice, mediation, alternative dispute resolution, and decision analysis. She received the College of Law’s Schott Scholarship Award in 2019 and Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2010, and a University President’s Excellence Award in 2006. As Director of the Center for Practice, she oversees UC Law’s trial practice program and coaches student teams for trial practice, negotiation, and dispute resolution competitions.

Professor Aaron is the author of Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Counseling Clients through Bad News and Other Legal Realities (Oxford 2012) and Risk and Rigor: A Lawyer’s Guide to Decision Trees for Assessing Cases and Advising Clients (DRI Press 2019), as well as numerous articles, chapters, simulations, and videos. Her websites - www.clientsciencecourse.com and www.riskandrigor.com - provide course materials and resources for educators and lawyers in client counseling and decision analysis.

Professor Aaron has also designed and taught numerous workshops on mediation, negotiation, decision tree analysis, client counseling, and professional communication for law firms, corporations, and governmental organizations. At the University of Cincinnati’s College of Business, she has taught workshops on professional presentation and negotiation. She has also taught as guest faculty at the University of Graz, University of Michigan Law School, and summer dispute resolution institutes at Harvard Law School, University of Las Vegas Nevada's School of Law, Hamline University and North Carolina Central State University.

Professor Aaron has mediated and arbitrated 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. An arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association and the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution and in her own practice, she has also been appointed by special masters to serve as panel mediator and claims allocation arbitrator for national class action gender and race discrimination settlements.

Until July 1998, Professor Aaron was the Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School ("PON"), where she also was a lecturer teaching negotiation. Prior to joining PON, she was a Vice President at Endispute (now known as JAMS-ADR) and a panel mediator for the Middlesex Multi-Door Courthouse.

She began her practice as a litigator at the Boston firm of Goodwin Procter and then an assistant District Attorney in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Professor Aaron is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Princeton University.