• Professors Marjorie Aaron and Betsy Malloy are coaching two teams of students entering Loyola’s National Health Law Transactional Competition, scheduled in March 2016.
• Professor Aaron taught a session for UC Women Lead titled “Negotiation, Conflict, Emotion, Authority and the Sound of Science” on January 20, 2016.
• Professor Aaron will teach seven sessions of the College of Business’s MBA class Professional Development course in collaboration with CCM’s Division Director, Rocco Dal Vera. Professor Aaron will focus on negotiation strategy and Professor Dal Vera on the “performative” side of effective negotiation.
• Professor Aaron’s “Shaking Decision Trees for Risks and Rewards” (co-authored with Wayne Brazil) is now in print in the fall issue of Dispute Resolution Magazine. http://www.americanbar.org/publications/dispute_resolution_magazine/2015/fall.html
• Professor Aaron’s four videos in a series recorded this summer, with the assistance of Mike Mimms and in collaboration with Professor Dwight Golann of Suffolk Law School, are now available. These include the Hapless Harvest Interviewing and Counseling videos (each with a “By the Book” and “Not by the Book” versions). They are now available on the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution/Suffolk University website for teachers. www.adrvideo.org/teaching-center.
• Professor Aaron, with the assistance of Mike Mimms, completed the Dale Doran Client Counseling Video (involving a client seeking legal advice about the effect of a non-compete, stock ownership and potential breach of contract issues, and a strategy for moving forward). This will soon be up on the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution/Suffolk University Law School website for teachers.
• Professor Aaron, with her ADR class, conducted a “grand arbitration experiment” to take a look at variation in arbitrator awards among different decision-makers and also seeking to determine whether the choice of solo vs. three member arbitrator panel or information about arbitration brackets influenced the arbitration results. More than 60 lawyers and approximately 20 students attended the event and sat as arbitrators. The UC Law ADR class presented the arbitration case (newly written) to the room.
• Professor Aaron and Adjunct Professor James Lawrence coached two teams of 1Ls (Melissa Springer and Meghan Franklin, and David Lopez and Benjamin White) throughout October and November for the ABA Regional Negotiation Competition. Professor Aaron traveled with the teams to Chicago on the weekend of November 13-15, 2015.
• Professor Aaron taught a full-day workshop on November 6, 2015, for the CPR Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution in St. Louis, for CPR’s St. Louis based members—in house counsel and major law firms. The workshop focused on Counseling Clients through Bad News, and on Decision Tree Analysis in Legal Practice.
• Professor Aaron taught a two-hour class on Decision Tree Analysis at Penn State’s law school via Skype on November 17, 2015.
• Professor Aaron completed the third of a three-day workshop series on November 21, 2015. The series was on Effective Professional Communication at the College of Business, with co-Faculty from CCM: Rocco Dal Vera and Denise Dal Vera.

Additionally, Professor Aaron’s work was cited in the following:

• Professor Aaron’s The Handbook of Dispute Resolution 202-18 (Michael L. Moffitt and Robert C. Bordone, eds., 2005), in R. Stephen McNeill, Applying Decision Tree Analysis to Expedite Preference Settlements, 34-DEC Am. Bankr. Inst. J. 32 (2015).