Introducing IP Mediator Victoria Pynchon
After a 25-year career in complex commercial litigation and trial work, Victoria Pynchon became a full-time attorney-mediator, working toward and receiving her LL.M. in Conflict Resolution from the prestigious Straus Institute in May of 2006.
Victoria mediates the same type of complex commercial and IP case she litigated for more than a quarter century with such firms as the Philadelphia-based Pepper, Hamilton (where she first worked with Les Weinstein); the Los Angeles-based Buchalter, Nemer and the San Francisco-based Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft (recently merged with Duane Morris)
Victoria is a neutral for the exclusive International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution and for the Southern California ADR firm, Judicate West. Vickie is the founder of her own specialty ADR panel, Settle It Now Dispute Resolution Services and the creator and author of the Settle It Now Negotiation Blog.
Victoria has 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.
Victoria's clients have been in the telecommunications, garment and import-export industries, as well as in the health care, entertainment, banking and finance, manufacturing and insurance industries.
Victoria'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.
Since commencing a full-time neutral practice, Ms. Pynchon has taught negotiation skills at the Summer Entrepreneurship Institute, Anderson School of Management, U.C.L.A. and at the Straus Institute where she taught Selected Issues in Employment Mediation with long-time employment mediator, Stefan Mason.
Victoria published widely in the field of dispute resolution in both the academic and professional press. She is co-editor of the Federal Bar Association ADR and the Southern California Mediation Association Newsletters.
Victoria's short fiction, literary non-fiction and poetry has been extensively published in the small University Press. She also edits the quarterly literary journal R.KV.R.Y.
