Fee Negotiations

June 4, 2007

Nice perceptive piece on negotiating fees over at the Consultant Journal blog entitled Negotiating vs. Giving Up. Thanks for the tip Andrea.

The above negotiation tip is sponsored by the acronym ZOPA.

Your mediator should never never never never let the parties believe they’ve reached impasse until the mediator is as certain as she can be that there is no Zone of Potential Agreement.

How does s/he know? Tune in for tips to knowing the mind of your mediator.

Victoria Pynchon

Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon is a panelist with ADR Services, Inc. Ms. Pynchon was awarded her LL.M Degree in Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute in May of 2006, after 25 years of complex commercial litigation practice, with sub-specialties in intellectual property, securities fraud, antitrust, insurance coverage, consumer class actions and all… MORE >