Legal News Network: Delivering bad news to clients

UC law professor guest on a popular podcast for legal professionals

Marjorie Aaron, professor of practice and director of the Center for Practice in the UC College of Law, spoke with the Lawyerist Podcast on Legal News Network for a segment about delivering bad news to clients. 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.

Listen to Professor Aaron’s interview on Legal News Network. (starts at 8:14 minutes)

More about Professor Aaron’s expertise online.

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