Y-ADR

CPR’s Young Leaders in Alternative Dispute Resolution (Y-ADR) program educates the next generation of leaders on the full spectrum of dispute prevention and resolution mechanisms and offers unique networking and professional development benefits to participants.

Through periodic seminars and other initiatives, participants are introduced to CPR and gain an insider’s view into how CPR’s community of corporate counsel, law firm counsel, and other experts in the field are using dispute prevention and resolution techniques to manage conflict to enable purpose.

Y-ADR is open to the conflict prevention and resolution community-- attorneys, professionals, academics and students -- 45 years old and younger, or those with less than 8 years of professional experience in international or domestic ADR practice or other areas of conflict prevention and resolution.

Y-ADR is at the heart of the organization’s mission to diversify the players in the ADR world and to create a global culture for dispute prevention and resolution.


Y-ADR participates in many CPR events throughout the year. Some recent examples:

Stay in touch with Y-ADR! Join the Y-ADR group on LinkedIn:

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And sign up to receive e-mail notifications about Y-ADR events and other CPR that are often of interest to Y-ADR.

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You can view some of Y-ADR's recent newsletters here:

Amplifying CPR's Young Leaders in Alternative Dispute Resolution (Y-ADR)

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The Y-ADR Steering Committee is the leadership group for Y-ADR.

The Y-ADR Steering Committee is a global group composed of young in-house counsel, practitioners at law firms, and neutrals - who serve on staggered three-year terms.

The Steering Committee is led by Co-Chairs Kate Gonzalez of Airbus and Sam Zimmerman of Hogan Lovells, supported by Committee Secretary Brigitte Kiu of Hogan Lovells.

View the current Y-ADR Steering Committee members


Applications to join the Y-ADR Steering Committee.

The Y-ADR Steering Committee terms run September through June of each year. Applications to join the Y-ADR Steering Committee can be made once per year when the application period opens, typically running from May to June of each year.

Steering Committee members must be an attorney or other professional 45 years old or younger or with less than 8 years of professional experience in international or domestic ADR practice or other areas of conflict prevention and resolution.

*While students are eligible to be members of Y-ADR, they are not yet eligible to serve on the Steering Committee.

Interested candidates, please visit the application page to learn more. Please note, applications are now closed. 

 Go to Y-ADR Steering Committee Application Page

For more information about Y-ADR, Y-ADR Steering Committee, or to sponsor an event, please contact Knar Nahikian