Irene S. Ross, Esq.

Irene S. Ross retired from her service as an Administrative Law Judge for the New York State Department of Labor to become a writer and lecturer; she is a trustee and Vice President of the Institute of General Semantics, and Board member and workshop leader for the New York Society for General Semantics. She has given numerous negotiation seminars throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Irene is co-author with Juliet Nierenberg of Women and the Art of Negotiating, published in 1985 by Simon and Schuster and republished in 1998 by Barnes and Noble. She and Juliet have co-authored a new book, The Secret of Successful Negotiation, published by Duncan Baird Publishers in London and under the title, Negotiate for Success by Chronicle Books in the U.S. They are currently writing a new book on the subject of negotiating with yourself.

She honed many of the skills for these activities while practicing law as a partner in a law firm engaged in the general practice of law and as a two term president of the Metropolitan Women's Bar Association, previously known as the Bronx Women's Bar Association.