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Dear Young Professional,
As the weather cools in New York City, CPR's programming is really heating up! In September, CPR Institute announced the new class of 20 members joining the Y-ADR Steering Committee, dedicated to encouraging and developing future leaders in dispute prevention, management and resolution.
Following up on a successful term last year, Y-ADR continues under the steady leadership of Kate Gonzalez (Airbus) and Samuel Zimmerman (Hogan Lovells) and Y-ADR members started the new term year with several programs including the multi-part ADR Skills Training Series (Energy, Insurance, and Employment industries), the quarterly Africa Arbitration Webinar series, the Africa Arbitration Day-New York Arbitration Moot and Conference, and a program for New York Arbitration Week.
Y-ADR is hard at work planning many more trainings, programs, and in person events to help you continue developing your ADR skills and professional journey. If you have ideas for future Y-ADR programming, please drop me a line. We would love to hear from you and hope to see you at a Y-ADR event soon.
Have a wonderful Autumn season!
Knar A. Nahikian, Esq.
CPR Institute - Director, International Initiatives
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“Seven Questions” with the Y-ADR Steering Committee | |
Get to know the Y-ADR Steering Committee members and learn from young professionals in various industries who are passionate about dispute prevention and resolution! Each Y-ADR newsletter will feature a few Y-ADR Steering Committee members answering “Seven Questions”. | |
2025 CPR International Mediation Competition | |
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Team Applications and the Interest Form for Experienced Mediators to Serve as Competition Judges are both now open!
Be sure to review the IMC Details, the 2025 CPR IMC Rules and the 2025 CPR IMC Important Dates to confirm compliance, then submit your team's application!
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ADR Skills Training for Employment Coming Up! | |
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Taught from a variety of perspectives - the neutral, in-house counsel and law firm counsel - this CLE program will provide insights and learning from experienced professionals that will help you shape your strategy for resolving and managing insurance disputes expeditiously and efficiently.
Register today and mark your calendar for ADR Skills Training: Employment Disputes on Tuesday, December 10.
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Annual Meeting Registration Now Open! | |
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Register today for the CPR Annual Meeting to be held February 5-7 in Miami. Your registration includes everything on the two-and-a-half-day agenda: all 11 panels, the Welcome Cocktail Reception, the Keynote Speaker session with Judge Rosemary Barkett, all meals, coffee/snack breaks, the Awards Dinner, multiple networking opportunities, and more.
Visit the Annual Meeting 2025 website for panel titles, speakers, hotel information and other details.
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ADR Skills Training Recap:
Energy and Insurance Disputes | |
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Thank you to all that attended Parts 1 and 2 of the ADR Skills Training:
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Energy Disputes (October 29) featuring Y-ADR Steering Committee members Lindsay Rowell (Blakes), Velislava Hristova (WilmerHale), and Denton Nichols (Norton Rose)
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Insurance Disputes (November 13) featuring Y-ADR Steering Committee member Adam Weiss (Linklaters)
Thank you to the Y-ADR Steering Committee and the CPR Institute Energy, Oil & Gas Industry and Insurance Alliance for support in developing this programs. Please be sure to join us for Part 3 of the series focused on Employment Disputes on December 10.
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European Advisory Board in Madrid Recap | |
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The European Advisory Board of CPR Institute had a productive meeting in Madrid (October 8) celebrating the roll out of our Corporate Counsel Early Case Assessment Toolkit for European Parties, planning our next big projects, learning about new arbitration rules that will affect our European members, debating conflict of interest disclosures, and exchanging knowledge and wisdom of our collective experiences.
Special thanks to our extremely gracious and thoughtful host, Javier Fernandez-Samaniego and his entire team at Osborne Clarke who truly rolled out the red carpet for us and showed the firm's deep knowledge of arbitration (thank you Daniel Harrison and Greg Fullelove)
Thanks to a collaboration between the European Advisory Board and the Y-ADR Steering Committee, we were pleased to have Y-ADR members participating in the meeting including Rutger Metsch (Herbert Smith Freehills), Richard Trinick (Three Crowns), and Sara Little (Orrick).
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Africa Arbitration Webinar Series Part 2 Recap | |
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In June 2024, Y-ADR launched the Africa Arbitration Webinar Series to complement our annual Africa Arbitration Day- New York event (an in-person day-long conference). The webinar series is presented on a quarterly basis and features interviews with leading experts to discuss the current state of arbitration in Africa, including emerging trends that may be unique to the African continent. On September 20, Y-ADR member Tiwalade Aderoju of Nigeria interviewed Dr. Wilfred Mutubwa of Kenya about Challenges to Arbitral Awards.
Click the video below to access the program.
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2nd Annual Africa Arbitration Day - New York (AAD-NY) | |
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Thank you to everyone that attended, supported & participated in the 2nd Annual Africa Arbitration Day – New York! It was a great success starting with the AAD-NY Moot Competition followed by the AAD-NY Conference which featured two CLE panels (SOAS Reports, Arbitrating Natural Resource Disputes in Africa), followed by a networking reception.
Congratulations to all the AAD-NY Moot students for a high-level competition, and in particular to our two AAD-NY Moot Award Winners, who received a $500 certificate from BARBRI.
CPR thanks the speakers, arbitrators, coaches, and especially the 2024 AAD-NY Steering Committee for sharing their time & expertise.
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Brazilian Advisory Board in São Paulo Recap | |
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The Brazilian Advisory Board of the CPR Institute had a productive and enriching meeting this week in São Paulo, led by Co-chairs Diego Faleck, Sofia Kilmar and Gabriel Costa. Thanks to the members who serve on this board for their time and commitment to the CPR mission! We appreciated the participation of Y-ADR Steering Committee members Giulia Spalletta (Souto Correa) and Iuri Reis (Machado Meyer), as part of the collaboration between the Brazilian Advisory Board and the Y-ADR Steering Committee.
Special thanks to Faleck & Associados for hosting the meeting, complete with a training by Diego Faleck and Roberto Baumgarten Kuster on the importance of companies proactively investing time for dispute system design.
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"Lessons Learned Resolving Disputes in Big Projects" Recap | |
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Thank you to everyone who attended the CPR Institute program in Madrid on October 8 - "Lessons Learned Resolving Disputes in Big Projects" presented by our European Advisory Board, which was generously hosted by member firm Cuatrecasas. The speaking panel included CPR President/CEO Serena Lee and European Advisory Board Co-Chair Torsten Bartsch (Caterpillar), along with several experts from the construction, forensic consulting, and arbitration industries.
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"Resources for Resolving Business Disputes" presented by CPR's Brazilian Advisory Board | |
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Thanks to all who joined us in São Paulo on October 17 for CPR Institute's Workshop, "Resources for Resolving Business Disputes" presented by CPR's Brazilian Advisory Board. An official program of SPAW | São Paulo Arbitration Week, this workshop reviewed CPR's many resources for preventing and resolving disputes, particularly those tailored to the Brazilian legal community, and featured an interview of two leading in-house counsel from the energy oil and gas industry.
Special thanks to Sofia Kilmar and CPR member firm TozziniFreire Advogados for hosting, and to Fernando Serec for opening the program with warm welcome remarks.
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In these interviews, we speak with attorneys and others in the conflict management field, from in-house corporate counsel to ombuds. Each interviewee is asked to share their perspectives on dispute resolution mechanisms and their advice for young practitioners.
This series is part of Y-ADR’s goal of educating the next generation of leaders on the full spectrum of dispute prevention and resolution mechanisms and to provide 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.
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CPR Dispute Resolution Services | |
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CPR Dispute Resolution is a boutique-style provider of leading-edge dispute management services – mediation, arbitration, custom appointing services, a panel of dispute prevention specialists, and more - that leverages resources generated by the CPR Institute.
Invite CPR Dispute Resolution to speak at your firm or organization about our services.
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Alternatives has moved!
All CPR members receive a free subscription to Alternatives.
NEW! Alternatives is now available to CPR members directly through the CPR website at cpradr.org/alternatives-newsletter. Members need to be logged in to the CPR website, cpradr.org, to access each issue starting with March 2024. For assistance setting up your log-in credentials, please email Micah Seigel, Programming & Membership Manager, at mseigel@cpradr.org.
If you would like to receive an email at the beginning of each month with a link to the new issue of Alternatives, please email Lili Schroppe, Director of Marketing & Membership, at lschroppe@cpradr.org.
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Alternatives has moved from Wiley and can now be found on the CPR website here.
Not a member? Join CPR today.
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