| Name: | Pynchon, Victoria |
| Address: | 499 North Canon Drive, Suite 400, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 |
| County: | Los Angeles |
| Phone: | 323-217-5162 |
| FAX: | 323-852-1535 |
| E-Mail Address | Victoria.Pynchon@gmail.com |
| California State Bar Number: | 90604 |
| Firm Name: | Settle It Now! Dispute Resolution Service |
| Nature of Law Practice: | * Alternative Dispute Resolution * Antitrust * Business/Commercial Litigation * Class Actions * Copyright/Trademark * Environment * Insurance Coverage/Bad Faith * Products Liability * Real Estate/Construction * Securities |
| Experience: | Litigated and tried commercial cases before the U.S. District Court for the Southern, Central and Eastern Districts of California over the past twenty-five years; full-time neutral since April of 2004; Faculty, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1993-present; former partner, Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft, and former associate, Buchalter, Nemer; environmental insurance coverage, antitrust, securities fraud, intellectual property, consumer class action and general commercial litigation; Panelist, Los Angeles Superior Court ADR Panel (2004-present); Co-Mediated Mandatory and Voluntary Settlement Conferences with Judges Victoria Chaney and Alexander Williams, III in connection with LL.M candidacy (2004-2006). Judicate West Panelist. |
| Work History for the Past Five Years: | Prior to serving as full-time neutral, Partner with Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft. Served as lead counsel for lead defendant in environmental insurance coverage and antitrust proceedings, as well as representing defendants and plaintiffs in complex commercial litigation and consumer class actions. |
| Education: | LL. M, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, 2006; J.D. Order of the Coif, University of California at Davis School of Law (1980); B.A. Literature, Magna cum Laude, University of California at San Diego (1975). |
| Dispute Resolution Training: | In addition to the 40-hour Mediating the Litigated Case seminar, course work at the Straus Institute in Mediation and Advanced Mediation Techniques; Construction Defect Mediation; Arbitration Practice; Ideological Foundations of Mediation; Social Psychology of Conflict; International Diplomacy; Dispute Resolution and Religion; Communication and Conflict; Restorative Justice. |
| Dispute Resolution Experience: | Mediated more than one hundred disputes in private practice and for the Los Angeles Superior court pro bono ADR panel, this Panel, and with Judges Victoria Chaney and Alexander Williams, III. |
| Professional Licenses: | Admitted to practice before all Federal District Courts and the Ninth Circuit; admitted to practice in California. |
| Professional Memberships: | Federal Bar Association; Co-editor, ADR Journal, Federal Bar Association (2006); Member ADR Committee, Los Angeles Superior Court (2005); Member of the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Bar Associations; Member Association of Business Trial Lawyers, and Committee Member of its Bench-Bar Complex Commercial Litigation Discovery Committee. |
| Other: | Former Professor of Business Law, School of Business and Economics, California State University at Northridge; Lecturer, Anderson School of Management, UCLA (summer ’06).
Adjunct Faculty, Straus Institute, Selected Issues in Employment Mediation with Stefan Mason, Spring ’07.
Publications in ADR: numerous on mediate.com and National Institute for Advanced Conflict Resolution Newsletter. |