Y ADR: John Heaps (Eversheds)
timing and elements necessary to successful mediation and the roles of the stakeholders in preparing for success; dispute resolution issues in the biotech / pharmaceutical industries; the potentially transformative impact of technology on dispute resolution, and key ethical issues that arise in mediation and arbitration. Finally, CPR’s popular Inhouse Counsel panel addressed best practices in dispute resolution as a business process.
Recent Y-ADR seminars have been organized in Paris, France (“Current Developments in Mediation and Other ADR Techniques”), New York City (“Diversity in ADR: Challenges and Steps Forward”) and in San Francisco, where CPR and Morrison & Foerster LLP presented a distinguished panel of experts engaged in a wide ranging discussion of what the future holds for litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
CPR’s 2014 Annual Meeting will be held from February 20-22, 2014 at Charleston Place in Charleston, South Carolina.
2012 CORPORATE LEADERSHIP AWARD DINNER (CLA)
Y ADR: London
YOUNG ATTORNEYS IN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (Y-ADR) CLA 12: Kathy A. Bryan (President & CEO of CPR)
CLA 12: CPR Board of Directors Vice Chairman John S. Kiernan (Debevoise & Plimpton LLP)
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CPR’s Y-ADR Program, Chaired by Dana MacGrath of Sidley Austin LLP, engages practicing lawyers 45 years old and younger or those with fewer than eight years of professional experience in the international ADR prac tice area. Through periodic seminars and networking events hosted by CPR member law firms, young lawyers are introduced to the role of ADR systems in corporations and multinational organizations.
Every year, CPR honors a corporation that ha s d e m o n s t r a te d l ea d e r s hi p a n d commitment to the principles of conflict management and resolution and has institutionalized these principles into their corporate and industry culture. The Award is presented at a black-tie event that draws more than 500 attendees representing top corporations, law firms, scholars, and public institutions. Since its inception, the event has raised more than $8 million in support of CPR’s educational, research and public policy programs. Past honorees have included Johnson & Johnson, General Electric, Ernst & Young, ConocoPhilips, Microsoft, DuPont, Pfizer Inc, Amgen Inc, FMC Technologies Inc, and GlaxoSmithKline.