Keynote Speaker Scott Turow (SNR Denton) and CPR Board Chairman Hon. William Webster chat during the 2012 CPR Annual Meeting
Ruth Glick (Arbitrator & Mediator) takes the podium during the 2012 CPR Annual Meeting
Blake Tartt (Beirne, Maynard & Parsons L.L.P.) & 2012 CPR Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker Harriet Miers (Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP) pose for a picture
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the Barclay InterContinental Hotel. As economic disruptions ricochet across the globe, businesses struggle to deal with unprecedented legal issues in an increasingly interconnected world. In this environment, every successful business plan must address dispute prevention and management on a global basis. The 2012 Annual Meeting explored this fundamental business reality and its implications for “Acceleration and Evolution in ADR.” This year’s panelists and participants included an outstanding group of leading General Counsel, top attorneys, and international arbitration and mediation experts. The program began with a discussion of research regarding corporate legal practice and ADR, including the Cornell/CPR/ Pepperdine survey of the Fortune 1000, the Deloitte Global Corporate Counsel Report, an analysis of the RAND Report on B2B Arbitration, and the Queen Mary University of LondonInternational Arbitration Survey. Panel discussions included: the myriad ways that we unintentionally undermine our ability to engage in successful ADR; key developments on
the international front, including online dispute resolution and implementation of the EU Mediation Directive; mediation with the government; and an interactive ethics panel that discussed key issues that arise in mediation and arbitration. As in previous years, CPR’s popular in-house counsel panel addressed how companies have adapted their ADR strategies to a complex legal environment.
Y-ADR (Young Attorneys in Alternative Dispute Resolution) CPR’s Y-ADR program, chaired by Dana MacGrath of Allen & Overy LLP, engages practicing lawyers 45 years old and younger or those with less than eight years of professional experience in the international ADR practice 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. CPR recently launched a Y-ADR Group on LinkedIn which currently boasts more than 120 members.