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Melissa Manwaring is a former practicing attorney, Melissa Manwaring is the Director of Curriculum Development at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where she develops negotiation-related teaching materials and consults with clients on course design. She teaches negotiation at the F.W. Olin School of Management at Babson College and serves as Negotiation Journal 's associate editor for education. She has previously taught at the Simmons College School for Health Studies as well as the Program on Negotiation's Seminar on Negotiation and Dispute Resolution.

Melissa originally studied negotiation theory at Harvard Law School with Roger Fisher and Bruce Patton and was trained as a mediator through the Harvard Mediation Program. For over six years, she practiced commercial litigation and intellectual property counseling in the San Francisco Bay Area, working with a largely high-tech client base at the law firms of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman) and Fenwick & West. She has mediated dozens of state court cases and online commercial disputes.

As an independent negotiation trainer and consultant, Melissa has taught negotiation theory and skills to thousands of students and clients from around the world, including executives, attorneys, public servants, educators, law students, undergraduate students, and middle-school students. Her clients have ranged from corporations such as Fidelity Investments and the Bank of Norway, to nonprofit organizations such as the Red Cross and Save the Children, to educational institutions such as Harvard University , Connecticut College, Boston College , and numerous public school districts. Melissa holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School , an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. from the University of Illinois .