The book chapters and articles below are the additional assigned readings referenced in the Client Science course syllabi on this website.
The first item “Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Initial Client Interviews” was written specifically for this course and this website, and may be freely downloaded. We are seeking permission from authors and publishers regarding free download of the remaining items. However, if you or your library owns the books or subscribes to the journals from which chapters and articles below are taken, they should be accessible to you from those sources.
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- Aaron, M., “Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Initial Client Interviews” (Clientsciencecourse.com, 2013).
- Aaron, M., “Risk and Rigor: A Lawyer’s Guide to Assessing Cases and Advising Clients” (DRI Press 2019) (hereafter referenced as Risk and Rigor), chapters 1-3 and chapter 13. Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 13.
- [The entire book, Risk and Rigor: A Lawyer’s Guide to Assessing Cases and Advising Clients (DRI Press 2019) is available for free chapter by chapter download at https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/dri_press/9/ and is also available on Amazon (at a modest price). Videos accompanying chapter three in the book can be accessed at https://www.riskandrigor.com/how-to-video-links on the Risk and Rigor website, https://www.riskandrigor.com/ which contains additional resource materials on decision analysis for lawyers].
- Cunningham, C., “What Do Clients Want From Their Lawyers?” Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (2009).
- Golann, D., “Death of a Claim: The Impact of Loss Reactions on Bargaining,” Negotiation Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4 (October 2004).
- ABA Model Rule 1.4 and Comments 1-7.
[As indicated earlier the course text, Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Initial Client Interviews, can be purchased by students and faculty at a discount price of $35 by entering the code ALAUTHC4 at checkout on direct order from Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/client-science-9780199891900?cc=us&lang=en&. It is available on Amazon.com at the list price of $49.99 (new) or as an ebook for about $18.]
The articles below relating to decision tree analysis have been superceded in most recent syllabi on this site due to the 2019 publication of “Risk and Rigor: A Lawyer’s Guide to Assessing Cases and Advising Clients”. (They are referenced in earlier syllabi and other materials.)
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- Aaron M. & Hoffer, D., “Decision Analysis as a Method of Evaluating the Trial Alternative,” Ch. 11 in Golann, D., Mediating Legal Disputes (Boston: Aspen, 1996): 307-334.
- Aaron M., “Finding Settlement with Numbers, Maps and Trees,” Ch. 13 in Moffitt, M. and Bordone, R. eds., The Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey Bass, 2005).
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