Check back for more information on the upcoming competitions.
January 2009
Representation in Mediation Competition
Date & Time: TBA
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.
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.
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.
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.
