Professor Mark Morris, Director of the Dispute Resolution Institute 919.530.7724
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NCCU Law School

North Carolina Central University

Mark W. Morris, J.D., summa cum laude, North Carolina Central University School of Law; LL.M., Harvard Law School.

Mark W. Morris is Professor of Law and Director of the Dispute Resolution Institute.  Currently, he supervises the Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic and teaches courses related to alternative dispute resolution.  Professor Morris has taught Torts, Contracts, Administrative Law, Workers’ Compensation, Remedies and Employment Law.  Professor Morris was certified by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission to mediate superior court civil actions in 1994.  Since then, he has mediated a broad range of civil cases, including employment matters, land condemnation, professional malpractice, and personal injury cases.  Professor Morris has served as a speaker and trainer at mediation seminars for the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section, the North Carolina Office of State Personnel, the North Carolina League of Municipalities, and Carolina Dispute Settlement Services, among others.  In September 2007, Governor Michael F. Easley, ’76, appointed Professor Morris to the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission.

Marjorie Corman Aaron, Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Center for Practice in Negotiation and Problem Solving at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Professor Aaron is an active mediator, arbitrator, and trainer in negotiation and dispute resolution in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a mediator panelist, sustaining academic member of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, and serves on CPR’s ADR Training Faculty. Until July, 1998, Ms. Aaron was the Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (“PON”), where she was also a lecturer teaching negotiation. Ms. Aaron has designed and taught numerous workshops on mediation, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, and litigation decision analysis for law firms, corporations and universities. She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, cases, and guides in the field of negotiation, mediation and other forms of dispute resolution. For more information, see http://www.law.uc.edu/faculty/aaron.html.

Course Name: Decision Tree Analysis for Lawyers and Mediators

Adrienne M. Fox, J.D., LL.M., has over 30 years of diverse legal experience – in litigation, mediation, arbitration, public office, and teaching. She has also taught scores of courses on trial, pre-trial and negotiation skills for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) in public programs and major law firms throughout the U.S., in London, and in St. Petersburg, Russia. Fox is the author of two books on North Carolina evidence: Admissibility of Evidence in North Carolina (West Publishing) and North Carolina Rules of Evidence with Objections (NITA Publishing.) In addition to her 25 years of teaching Civil Procedure, Evidence, and Trial Advocacy, Fox is certified as a mediator by the N.C. Dispute Resolution Commission and Industrial Commission, and a certified arbitrator in the state’s district courts. Her teaching in the DRI includes the courses on Arbitration and Negotiation.

Course Name: Arbitration


Pamela Glean, J.D., North Carolina Central University.
Professor Glean is a native of Hillsborough, NC. She graduated from Duke University in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in economics. She received her juris doctorate in 1980, after which she entered private practice in Greensboro, NC. In 1992, Glean returned to Durham where she served as Assistant County Attorney, and Staff Attorney for the Center for Child & Family Health. She began teaching at NCCU School of Law in 1996, and is currently a clinical supervising attorney.

While at the Law School, Glean has served as coach and advisor for the Trial Advocacy Team, a member and advisor of the Faculty Senate, and a member of the University Graduation Committee. She also teaches regularly for NITA (the National Institute of Trial Advocacy) and The Principal's Executive Program.

Program Name: Selected Topics: Dispute Resolution in Family Law Practice

G. Nicholas Herman, practices law in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has extensive litigation experience in state and federal court in a wide variety of areas of law, including county defense, zoning issues, personal injury, civil rights, criminal law, and employment law. Mr. Herman has been an Adjunct Professor at North Carolina Central University School of Law since 1987. He has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at Duke University School of Law, the University of North Carolina School of Law, Campbell University Law School and at Elon University (Department of Philosophy). He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar. He received his law degree from Duke University School of Law in 1981. Since 1993, he has taught on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in trial practice, negotiation and mediation, and deposition-taking skills. He is the author of Practical Evidence: The Law, Foundations, and Trial Techniques (West Group 1999), Plea Bargaining (Lexis Law Publishing 2004), and Legal Counseling and Negotiating: A Practical Approach (Lexis-Nexis 2001).

Course Name: ADR – Processes and Practice

Dr. Jessica Katz Jameson, Ph.D., is Associate Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at NC State University, where she teaches courses in organizational communication, conflict management, and nonprofit leadership. Her graduate seminars include organizational communication and organizational conflict management. Dr. Jameson is also a member of the faculty for the PhD in Communication Rhetoric and Digital Media. She has had mediation training through CDR Associates in Boulder, Colorado and currently mediates for the employee mediation program at NC State. She has also assisted with mediation training for university administrators and ombudspersons. Other professional activities include workshops on conflict management and the facilitation of organizational planning sessions. Professor Jameson has published articles on topics including mediation, managerial third-party intervention, dispute system design, and health communication in journals such as Negotiation Journal, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, and the International Journal for Conflict Management. More information is available at: http://web.mac.com/jkj93/Jameson/Welcome.html.

Course Name: Theories of Conflict



Frank C. Laney, is Circuit Mediator for the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is chair of the State Judicial Council Dispute Resolution Committee and ex officio member of the NC Dispute Resolution Commission. He was Mediation Coordinator for the NC Industrial Commission, a founding partner in Mediation Inc. and for three years limited his private practice in Raleigh to mediation. He has been a member of the NCBA Dispute Resolution Committee (now Section) since its inception and is a past section chair. He was a consultant with the NCBA's Mediated Settlement Conference Pilot Program.Mr. Laney is certified by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission and as a practitioner member of the Academy of Family Mediators. Mr. Laney has lectured and written on legal and ethical implications in the ADR field for two decades, helping North Carolina formulate its own policies in such areas as participation, enforceability of agreements and confidentiality.

Course Name: Ethics in Dispute Resolution




Adrienne Meddock, J.D., summa cum laude, North Carolina Central University School of Law, is Assistant Dean for the Evening Program at the School of Law. She received her 40-hour DRC-approved mediation training in 1996. She has worked closely with Jeff Seigle of Carolina Dispute Settlement Services and Carolina Collaborative Law Group since 2006, when she received a special one-time grant from the Office of the University Provost to offer the DRC-approved Superior Court Mediation training to Evening Program students. The pilot program was so successful that the course has been offered each summer since. Dean Meddock's teaching interests also include Entertainment, Intellectual Property, and Real Property law.

Program Name: Superior Court Mediation (Evening Program)

Carolina Dispute Settlement Services (CDSS) is one of the leading providers of alternative dispute resolution services and training in North Carolina. Since its founding in 1983 we have assisted individuals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations with the resolution of thousands of cases. CDSS is a non-profit, private organization dedicated to the process of cooperative resolution of conflicts with the intervention of alternative dispute resolution methods.Recent trainers and speakers have included: Diann Seigle and Leila Jabbar, CDSS; Frank Laney, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Mediator; Professor Mark W. Morris, NCCU School of Law DRI; Judge Ralph Walker, Administrative Office of the Courts; Leslie Ratliff, Dispute Resolution Commission. Since 2000, CDSS has worked in partnership with the School of Law to provide training and clinical experience to students in the ADR Clinic.

Diann Seigle, is the Executive Director for Carolina Dispute Settlement Services, and has practiced in the field of alternative dispute resolution since 1997. Ms. Seigle’s practice includes mediation, arbitration and med-arb in the divorce, employment, business and district court arenas, where she has settled thousands of cases. Areas of particular interest include research and implementation of mediation in domestic violence cases and conflict resolution management system design in the health care industry and governmental agencies. Ms Seigle has served as a speaker and trainer at various mediation seminars and ADR conferences. Ms Seigle has been an instructor for the ADR Clinic course at North Carolina School of Law since 2000. She currently serves on the Wake County Domestic Violence Task force, the North Carolina Bar Association ADR Section Council and is a second term commissioner to the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission. Ms Seigle is an Advanced Practitioner member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and the Academy of Family Mediators. Ms Seigle holds degrees in Psychology and Special Education from the University of Montana.



Kathleen Wallace, J.D., LL.M., is a conflict resolution specialist with over fifteen years of experience as a crisis intervention counselor, arbitrator, negotiator, and mediator. Licensed by the North Carolina State Bar and certified by North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission and Industrial Commission, she mediates litigated claims involving personal injury, worker’s compensation, contracts, and property damage, as well as pre-litigation claims of harassment, insubordination, issues among boards of directors, and intra-organizational disputes. She designed and implemented a mediation program for the U.S. Olympic Committee and mediates disputes involving athletes’ right to participate in Olympic events and disputes involving the governance of amateur sports in the U.S.. Ms. Wallace also teaches conflict resolution courses at North Carolina Central University School of Law and at Duke University. Ms. Wallace has served as a violence intervention counselor and police officer in Durham, associate dean for judicial affairs at Duke University, arbitrator within the Duke University employee grievance process, and consultant to institutions of higher education on issues such as crisis management, conflict resolution, harassment, suicide, integrity, and ethics. Her education includes an undergraduate degree from Duke University, a law degree from North Carolina Central University School of Law, a master of laws in dispute resolution from Peppderdine University School of Law and a certificate in documentary studies from Duke University. She is currently a William C. Friday Fellow for Human Relations.

Course Name: ADR Clinic and Negotiation All Around Us