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The new District Court ADR/Discovery Commissioner Jay Young hit the ground running with the court on March 8. Commissioner Erin Truman and Commissioner Young will be splitting civil Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and discovery duties by department as follows:
Commissioner Truman: Departments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, and 32.
Commissioner Young: Departments 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 28, 29, 30, and 31.
Commissioner Young will be handling the Family Division Discovery.
Commissioner Young has extensive experience and training. He has practiced as a complex commercial litigator, mediator, and arbitrator in Clark County since 1994, and has resolved thousands of cases as a judge, mediator, arbitrator, and special master. He served as judge pro tem in the Henderson, Nevada Municipal Court.
Prior to taking this new post, Commissioner Young was a Member at Howard & Howard, PLLC, practicing as a neutral and in business litigation. He was recently a full-time arbitrator/ mediator at Advanced Resolution Management and the American Arbitration Association. At Marquis Aurbach Coffing, he worked as the litigation department chair, and for a time as a managing shareholder. He also worked as an associate at McDonald Carano Wilson. From 1995 to 1996, he taught Constitutional law as an adjunct professor at the Community College of Southern Nevada. He served as a judicial extern to theHonorable Robert C. Jones, Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, district of Nevada in 1992. He also worked as a caseworker for Congressman Howard C. Nielson (retired), from 1989 to 1991.
Commissioner Young has published several books and multiple legal articles. He has an impressive list of awards to his credit; the most recent including: Lawyer of the Year, The Best Lawyers in America, 2021 Arbitration; Vegas Inc.’s Top Lawyer 2020: Labor and Employment; Top 100 List: Mountain States Super Lawyers, in Business Litigation and ADR (2015 – 2019); and The Best Lawyers in America, Arbitration (2017 – present).
He served as faculty with theNational Institute for Trial Advocacy and the National Judicial College. His credentials also include significant volunteer work for several organizations. He received Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University in1991 and his juris doctor degree from J. Reuben Clark Law School (BYU), in 1994.
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