Victoria Pynchon
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 Victoria Pynchon |
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| Born | May 1, 1952 San Diego, California |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Other names | Victoria Pike |
| Education | University of California, San Diego, University of California, Davis, Pepperdine University |
| Occupation | Lawyer, mediator, author |
| Known for | Daily legal blog |
| Website | |
| Settle It Now | |
Victoria "Vickie" Pynchon (born May 1, 1952) is an American lawyer, attorney mediator, author and writer based in Los Angeles.
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[edit] Early years
Victoria Pynchon grew up in La Mesa in San Diego County, graduating from La Mesa Junior High School, where she was valedictorian, then graduating in 1970 from Helix High School.
[edit] Education
In 1975, Pynchon graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in literature from the University of California, San Diego. In 1980, she received her Jurist Doctor from UC Davis School of Law (King Hall), where she graduated with Order of the Coif honors. In 2006, she received her Master of Laws degree from Pepperdine University School of Law.
[edit] Career
Pynchon was admitted in December 1980[1] to the State Bar of California, and, in 1985, to the U.S. District Courts for the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California and to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. In the mid 1980s, she was a business law professor at California State University at Northridge. She practiced law as a commercial litigator for 25 years before starting a mediation practice in 2004.
She is a member of the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution,[2] as well as on the Attorney Settlement Officer Panel for the United States District Court for the Central District of California.[3][4] She's also a member of the board of directors for the Federal Bar Association's Alternative Dispute Resolution Section committee.[5] And since 1995, she has been a coach and trainer for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.[6]
In 2004, Pynchon founded Settle It Now Dispute Resolution Services and currently has a mediation practice with ADR Services, Inc. in Los Angeles. She is on the faculty of Solo Practice University.[7] and is also an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University’s Straus Institute.
In April 2009, she co-paneled a session about mediation at the annual American Bar Association's spring conference in New York City.[8] And in February 2009, Pynchon was a keynote speaker at X2 Healthcare Network's Xscape Conference in Las Vegas, NV,[9] and was scheduled to give a two-day workshop at its 2010 conference.[10] In October 2007, she was a speaker at the IP Litigation and Dispute Resolution Conference held in London, England.[11] Also in October 2007, she was a panelist during “Cyberweek,” sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Technology and Dispute Resolution Center[12]
She appeared in February 2009 on American Public Media’s "Marketplace."[13] In addition, Pynchon was profiled in a 2009 article in the Los Angeles Daily Journal.[14] She is the weekly host of New Day Talk Radio’s “Negotiating Women” show.[15]
NPR's Jennifer Ludden in February 2011 on "All Things Considered" featured Pynchon's She Negotiates course, which Pynchon co-teaches with life coach Lisa Gates.[16]
[edit] Writing
She is editor-in-chief of the online quarterly literary journal, R-KV-R-Y,[17] which was included in Dzanc Books' Best of the Web anthology series of literature for 2008.[18][19]
In 2010, she authored a book about mediation for the layperson titled The Grownups' ABCs of Conflict Resolution, released by Reason Press.[20]
Her essays have been referenced in academic journals, including in Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal in 2005.[21] and the Journal of Southern New Hampshire University in 2002 when it published an essay about the process of writing.[22] Her Settle It Now negotiation law blog has been featured on Mediate.com.[23]
Pynchon's articles have been published by Forbes.com,[24] the Los Angeles Daily Journal,[25][26] Law Practice Today,[27] and the National Institute for Advanced Conflict Resolution site.[28] She's a former newsletter editor at Southern California Mediation Association[29] and, until mid 2009, she co-wrote a column for The Complete Lawyer.[30] She is the current editor of The Resolver for the Federal Bar Association ADR section's newsletter.[31] In May 2010, she became a regular contributor on Forbes.com's "On the Docket" column.[32]
In June 2010, Pynchon was ranked No. 47 on the "Top 100 Academic Law Twitter Feeds" list in a RasmussenCollege.com article that described her as "a master of conflict resolution and deposition skills."[33][34]
Her poetry has appeared in The Ledge Poetry & Fiction Magazine and Kalliope, Penn State University's literary magazine.[35]
[edit] Personal
Pynchon is the daughter of the late Donald Pike, a lawyer and a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Stephen Goldberg,[36] also an attorney.
[edit] External links
- Article in Conflict Resolution eJournal, June 2007, "The Cost Of A Thing Is The Amount of Life Which Is Required To Be Exchanged For It: The Subjective Experience Of Money In The Settlement Of A Wrongful Burial Practices Case," by Victoria Pynchon
- Settle It Now official blog
- Settle It Now official Web site
- She Negotiates official site
- The IPR ADR blog
- Short story, "Dangerous Places," by Victoria Pynchon, published in Kudzu digital quarterly
- Interview of Vickie Pynchon by Tammy Lenski
- LinkedIn profile (retrieved 8/20/08)
[edit] References
- ^ "Pynchon's State Bar listing". http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=96034.
- ^ Cal State Bar's Litigation Section's committee roster
- ^ "Member, Attorney Settlement Officer Panel". http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/cacd/AttySetPan.nsf/d2a66336794a5d8388256cb700642211/490ef055128c9c1a88256fb10060c7de?OpenDocument.
- ^ "US Bankruptcy Court's list of mediator panelists". http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/cacb/Services.nsf/New%20Mediation%20Program/05C5EF8EEE3FDB9F88257116006B05D7/$FILE/Bios%2010-07.pdf.
- ^ Membership listing, Federal Bar Association
- ^ National Institute of Trial Advocacy
- ^ Faculty member, Solo Practice University
- ^ "ABA dispute resolution conference schedule". http://www.abanet.org/dispute/spring2009/DRSP09-ConfBrochure.pdf.
- ^ "Xscape 2009 Agenda". http://www.x2hn.org/body_.cfm?id=45.
- ^ Xscape 2010 conference speaker
- ^ Brochure, Intellectual Property Litigation and Dispute Resolution conference
- ^ Panelist, Cyberweek, “Taking Peacemaking Public” program
- ^ Interview with Victoria Pynchon, Public Radio, “Consumers Display Negotiating Nerve,” 02-09-09.
- ^ Daily Journal, article by Mindy Farabee
- ^ Radio host: "Negotiating Women" on New Day Talk Radio
- ^ NPR, "Ask For A Raise? Most Women Hesitate," February 14, 2011
- ^ "Editor-in-chief, quarterly literary journal". http://rkvry.com/.
- ^ "Dzanc Books: Dzanc Books To Publish Best Of The Web Anthology Series". http://emergingwriters.typepad.com/dzanc_books/2007/08/dzanc-books-to-.html.
- ^ "Best of The Web 2008". http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979312345.
- ^ A is for Asshole: The Grownups' ABCs of Conflict Resolution, by Victoria Pynchon, illustrations by Dean Murray
- ^ "Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, 2005". http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=info:KIYM_bGQEw8J:scholar.google.com/&output=viewport&pg=1.
- ^ "Essay, "Yeah, We're Her Writer's Group," The Journal of Southern New Hampshire University, Spring 2002". http://www.amoskeagjournal.com/index.php?p=11.
- ^ "Mediate.com Featured Blogs". http://www.mediate.com/blogs/.
- ^ Article, published on Forbes.com, by Victoria Pynchon titled "Negotiation 101: Gender War Or Gender Peace And Prosperity?" September 18, 2009
- ^ ""Every Case Is a Winding Road" by Victoria Pynchon, Los Angeles Daily Journal". http://www.dailyjournal.com/newswire/components/printArticle.cfm?sid=490007100&tkn=kr6PcfaF&eid=898980&evid=1&scid=162254.
- ^ List of articles
- ^ "Negotiating Gender: Why So Few Women Neutrals?" by Victoria Pynchon, Law Practice Today, April 2010
- ^ Featured mediation article by Victoria Pynchon
- ^ "Former editor, Southern California Mediation Association's newsletter". http://www.scmediation.org/mediation_scma_committees.asp.
- ^ "Columnist, The Complete Lawyer". http://www.thecompletelawyer.com/volume4/issue2/article.php?ppaid=6314&rmode=full.
- ^ Editor, The Resolver
- ^ Blogger, "On the Docket," Forbes.com
- ^ "Top 100 Academic Law Twitter Feeds," by Allie Gray, Online Marketing Manager for Rasmussen College, June 2010
- ^ VPynchon Twitter page
- ^ "Listing of contemporary lawyer poets". http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/intro/contemp_pt2.html.
- ^ Profile, Stephen Goldberg
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