UC Law panel to highlight decision tree analysis, case assessment

The University of Cincinnati College of Law will mark the publication of “Risk & Rigor: A Risk & Rigor: A Lawyer’s Guide to Decision Tree Analysis for Assessing Cases and Advising Clients,” with a panel discussion addressing the role and value of decision tree analysis on legal practice, at 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, April 16, at the Graydon Head Ritchey (312 Walnut Street, Ste. 1800, Cincinnati, OH  45202). 

"Risk & Rigor" is the latest book of Professor Marjorie Aaron, director of the Center for Practice at the law school.

The discussion will focus on how rigorous case assessment is an essential component of competent lawyering, how decision tree analysis can improve client understanding of legal issues and choices in litigation, and how the method can assist attorneys’ legal analysis, negotiating strategies, and settlement recommendations.

Panelists include:

•  Michael Moffitt, Roger D. Fisher Visiting Professor in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Harvard Law School (via video conference),
• Bill Markovits, Founding Partner, Markovits, Stock & DeMarco LLC,
• Scott Phillips, Member, Frost Brown Todd LLC, and others.

Aaron also has designed and taught numerous workshops on mediation, negotiation, decision tree analysis, client counseling, and professional communication for law firms, corporations, universities, and governmental organizations.

She is the author of "Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Counseling Clients through Bad News and Other Legal Realities" (Oxford University Press, 2012) as well as numerous articles, book chapters, cases, dvds, and guides in the field of negotiation, mediation and other forms of dispute resolution. Aaron also is an arbitrator for the national panel of the American Arbitration Association and the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution. 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.

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