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Author: Victoria Pynchon is a multiparty complex commercial mediator and arbitrator with a special emphasis in the resolution of patent, copyright and trademark disputes based in Beverly Hills, Calif. She also edits The Southern California Mediation Association Blog and contributes to IP ADR Blog.

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Recent Posts from Settle It Now Negotiation Blog

  • And Now a Word from Mediators Beyond Borders on Climate Change

              By Kenneth Cloke The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference -- What You Can Do In December 2009, delegates from around the world will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark for the 15th Conference…

  • Deal or No Deal: Improving the Odds of Successful Mediation

    Need CLE Credits? Mark your calendars! The American Bar Association Section of Litigation will hold a live teleconference and webcast on July 14, 2009 titled “Deal or No Deal: Improving the Odds of Successful Mediation.”…

  • Negotiating God: a Sunday Reflection

    According to Robert Wright in The Evolution of God (reviewed in todays NYT Book Review by Paul Bloom) "God has mellowed" from a capricious tyrant into non-zero-sum playing diety.  This is  good news for mediators…

  • Negotiating from a Position of Weakness Hollywood Style

    When last we left Ari and Terrence negotiating Ari's compensation Terrence had ceremoniously offered Ari "NOTHING!!!" But we're not talking only money here.  We're talking power and agency in the psychological sense, i.e., agency as…

  • The Insulting Opening Offer

    Does it ever serve a purpose? One extremely good answer to the question whether an insulting first offer ever has a purpose can be found at Steve Mehta's Mediation Matters Blog Taking Escalates More than…

  • Put Conflict Resolution on the Climate Change Conference Agenda

    Place: Glyptoteket, Copenhagen Date: The 10th and 11th December 2009 During eleven days in December 2009 delegates from throughout the world will meet in Copenhagen for the 15th Conference of the Parties – COP15 –…

  • Negotiating with North Korea

    Check out today's ADR Prof Blog post What are their interests?  Negotiating with North Korea.  Excerpt below. North Korea recently sentenced two U.S. journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, to 12 years of hard labor…

  • Sotomayor and Women's Organizations

    Women in the United States Judiciary 2009 State Court Judges in the US: 4,325 women of 16,950 total 26% women 2008 Federal Court Judges 47 of 164 active judges on the thirteen federal courts of…

  • An Interview with Michael Young on the $4.1 Billion Arbitration Award

    Anatomy of an Arbitration Disaster Amanda Bronstad The National Law Journal June 17, 2009 A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on May 28 affirmed an arbitration award of more than $4.1 billion, sending shock waves…

  • Negotiating Cooperation

    Cooperation View more OpenOffice presentations from Victoria Pynchon.


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