Victoria Pynchon
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UPCOMING SPEAKING AND TRAINING ENGAGEMENTS
Preventing and Breaking Negotiation and Mediation Impasse by Understanding the Symbolic Meaning of Money at the ABA ADR Section's 12th Annual Spring Conference in San Francisco on April 8-10, 2010 (with Mediator and Professor Inga Watkins of the Howard Univrsity School of Law.
Ms. Pynchon will be returning to the 
for its annual XScape to provide two days of negotiation training to women health care executives in Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday May 18th and Wednesday, May 19th.
Victoria Pynchon -- author of the Settle It Now Negotiation Blog and founder of the IP ADR Blog -- is an attorney-mediator and arbitrator with ADR Services, Inc. in Century City, California.
Ms. Pynchon resolves the same type of complex commercial case she litigated for more than a quarter century with such firms as the Philadelphia-based Pepper, Hamilton; the Los Angeles-based Buchalter, Nemer and the San Francisco-based Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft (recently merged with Duane Morris) She is a neutral for ADR Services, Inc. and her own specialty panels, Settle It Now Dispute Resolution Services IP ADR Services.
Ms. Pynchon's broad business background gives her commercial mediation practice unusual depth in industry practices, management and finance. She spent her commercial litigation career litigating "bet the company" antitrust, unfair competition, intellectual property and insurance coverage actions. She has also prosecuted and defended nationwide consumer class actions and litigated securities fraud and professional liability actions. Her clients have been in the garment and import-export industries, as well as in the health care, entertainment, banking and finance, manufacturing and insurance industries.
Ms. Pynchon's credentials include extensive academic and practical teaching experience at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels, including more than a dozen years of teaching experience with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.
Ms. Pynchon received her LL.M. in Conflict Resolution from the prestigious Straus Institute and her law degree, Order of the Coif, from University of California at Davis King Hall School of Law .
Ms. Pynchon was recently appointed to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. Her term in office begins at the end of September 2008 and will continue through September of 2010.
Here's what lawyers and business people have to say about Ms. Pynchon's negotiation trainings and seminars:
The women at the X2 Healthcare Network were so enthused by the concepts Victoria presented in her keynote, "Winning" the Negotiation, that we are planning on her full-day workshop as the focal point to our next annual retreat. Victoria's style was engaging and participatory, and we all want away wanting more of her strategies, tactics and entertainment. Gale Wilson-Steele of Health Media Syndicate ~ a MEDSEEK Partner
Ms. Pynchon's presentation is informative and lively. Several of my colleagues are putting the mediation tips she gave us to immediate use. It was one of those rare MCLE's in which I learned something new and immediately applicable. Martin Trupiano, Esq., Squire Sanders & Dempsey (now at Law Offices of Martin Trupiano)
Thank you for your presentation on negotiation and settlement. It was a huge hit. David Lash, Esq., O'Melveny
As a corporate partner in a large national firm who has been negotiating all kinds of deals, contracts and individual points for 30 years, I thoroughly enjoyed Vickie's presentation. She has obviously made a very diligent and successful effort to master the literature and wisdom of others in the field of negotiating, and her enthusiasm for integrating what she's studied with what she's experienced herself made for a very interesting, lively and useful presentation--truly made me think about some things I had never thought consciously about, and the hour flew by." Partner, AmLaw 100 International Law Firm
Ms. Pynchon's recent speaking engagements include the following:
Co-instructor (with Lee Jay Berman and Doug Noll) for full-day seminar on Legal and Insurance Terms of Art and Settlement Strategies at the American Institute of Mediation, November 2009.
Negotiating from a Position of Weakness for the California Association of Licensed Investigators Semi-Annual Conference, November 6, 2009.
What Every Litigator Should Know About Enforcing and Avoiding 
ADR Clauses with the Hon. Michele Flurer, mediator Rebecca Callahan, Esq. and attorney D. Brian Reider of Best, Best and Krieger, LLC, September 10-13, 2009 at the Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California.
Two-day negotiation training for Qwest Communications' Legal Department, Denver, Colorado, May 2009.
Speaker, Social Networking for Attorneys and Neutrals at the Fourth Annual Los Angeles Twitter Conference, Friday July 31, 2009, at the Los Angeles House of Blues on Sunset Blvd
X2 Healthcare Network: Winning the Negotiation: Negotiation as Poker Game. Keynote address. Las Vegas, Nevada. February 2009.
ALI-ABA Webinar: ADR in IP Litigation with IP litigator R. David Donoghue of Holland + Knight. February 2009.
Some of Ms. Pynchon's recent professional publications include:
Negotiation 101: Gender Wars or Gender Peace and Prosperity? ForbesWoman, September 2009
Take Steps to Ensure that Mediated Settlement Agreements Can Be Enforced (with Deborah Rothman) The Los Angeles Daily Journal, October 20, 2006, reprinted at Mediate.com
Mediation ‘Magic’ Happens When Neutrals Revitalize Justice Issues, Los Angeles Daily Journal, July 22, 2008
Email Communication Can Be Dangerous During Litigation, Los Angeles Daily Journal, June
2008
Bullying, Rigidity are Surefire Negotiation Deal Breakers, Los Angeles Daily Journal, May 14, 2008
When Talks Reach an Impasse, Mediators Work Their Magic, Los Angeles Daily Journal, April 30, 2008
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, The Advocate, October 2009 (the Journal of Consumer Attorneys Associations for Southern California)
Shame by Any Other Name: Lessons for Restorative Justice from the Principles, Traditions and Practices of Alcoholics Anonymous, Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Journal. 5(2): 299-324 (2005)
Ms. Pynchon was interviewed by American Public Media's "Marketplace" reporter Joel Rose in a segment entitled Consumers Display Negotiating Nerve in February of 2009 (podcast and transcript at link)
Ms. Pynchon's short fiction, literary non-fiction and poetry have been extensively published in the small University Press. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the r.kv.r.y. quarterly literary journal.
