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Speaker Profiles
Mark Herrmann (Speaker)
Chief Counsel, Aon
http://www.amazon.com/Curmudgeons-Guide-Practicing-Law/dp/1590316762
Mark Herrmann is the Vice President and Chief Counsel - Litigation at Aon. In that capacity, he is responsible for protecting Aon’s interests in all litigation in which the company is involved in any of the 120 countries in which Aon does business.
For twenty years before joining Aon, Mr. Herrmann was a partner at the international law firm Jones Day, where his practice emphasized the defense of class actions and mass torts. Earlier in his career, Mr. Herrmann spent five years litigating at Steinhart & Falconer in San Francisco, and he served as law clerk to the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Herrmann has written three books, including The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law, which was a finalist for a Benjamin Franklin Award (the independent book publishers’ equivalent of a National Book Award) in 2007. His many scholarly writings have appeared in journals ranging from the Tulane Law Review to the University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra. Mr. Herrmann has also written nearly 100 shorter articles for the legal and popular press, which have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, and other publications around the globe.
Mr. Herrmann taught complex litigation for nearly a decade on the adjunct faculty of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He founded and co-hosted for three years the Drug and Device Law Blog, which remains the most widely read product liability blog on the internet. While in private practice, Mr. Herrmann was profiled in Chambers USA, the Legal 500, the Best Lawyers in America, and both Illinois and Ohio "Super Lawyers."
Mr. Herrmann graduated from Princeton University and The University of Michigan Law School, where he served as an article editor of the Michigan Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.