Marjorie Corman Aaron is Professor of Practice Emerita at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she taught negotiation, mediation, mediation advocacy, decision analysis, client counseling, and trial practice. 

Professor Aaron has served as an arbitrator or mediator for more than thirty-six years, initially at Endispute, Inc. (merged with JAMS), and then as an independent neutral  alongside her academic career.  She has mediated or arbitrated cases  involving commercial contracts, construction and design claims, business torts and fraud, product liability, corporate governance, partnership, and fiduciary obligations, franchise claims, defamation, employment terms and non-competes, FLSA claims, sexual harassment, and gender, age, race, and religious discrimination, civil rights, consumer protection, mass claims, environmental claims, real estate, trusts, banking practices, real estate, leasing, business valuation, personal injury, insurance coverage, and professional malpractice. She has served as mediator and advisory arbitration panelist under the auspices of a special master in three national class action employment discrimination suits. 

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She is a mediator and arbitrator panelist for the American Arbitration Association, CPR Institute for Conflict Resolution and Prevention, and the Cincinnati Bar ADR Service.  She has also served as a consultant in decision analysis for a company financing, packaging, and valuing data privacy breach class actions and lawyers assessing individual case value. She has provided strategic mediation advocacy consulting for attorneys in data privacy breach and other major litigation.

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Professor Aaron regularly designs and teaches tailored workshops on negotiation, client communication, mediation, decision analysis, client communication, and presentation for law firms, corporations, and other organizations, and offers individual coaching in these areas.

Professor Aaron is the author of Risk and Rigor: A Lawyer’s Guide to Assessing Cases and Advising Clients (DRI Press, 2019) and Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Counseling Clients through Bad News and Other Legal Realities (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Negotiating Outcomes: Pocket Mentor Series (Harvard Business School Press, 2007). She has authored numerous chapters, articles and case simulations in client communication, mediation, negotiation, and decision analysis and has produced many videos on effective practice (or co-produced with Professor Golann).  Her collection of instructional simulations can be found at www.dri-mitchell-hamline.edu; course materials on client interviewing and counseling are at www.clientsciencecourse.com, and offerings on decision tree analysis is at RiskandRigor.com.

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Before joining the faculty at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, Professor Aaron was Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and a Senior Mediator and Vice President for Professional Development at Endispute, Inc. (merged with JAMS).  A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Professor Aaron began her career as a civil litigator at the Goodwin Proctor firm and then as an Asst. D.A. in Plymouth County, MA.

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Full CV can be found here.