Richard Young pursued his dual JD/MBA at the Boyd School of Law and Lee Business School. His interests in negotiation and dispute resolution include complex contract disputes, the effects of third-party litigation funding on dispute resolution, and how disputing parties can leverage predictive analytics to inform their decision-making processes. Richard worked as an extern for the Honorable August B. Landis of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada and served as President of the Dispute Resolution Society.

Astasia Lucas completed a dispute resolution concentration with a focus on family law, criminal law, and personal injury. Astasia’s interest in dispute resolution stems from her educational and work experience, where she learned that most cases settle through some form of conflict resolution before going to trial. Astasia was Secretary of the Dispute Resolution Society and used her role to encourage more students to get involved with the organization.

Whitney Jones is a third-year law student at William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a student attorney with the Investor Protection Clinic. She will graduate from Boyd in May 2020. 

Meredith Hall is a third-year law student at the William S. Boyd School of Law, a first-year MBA student at the Lee School of Business and a student-attorney in the Investor Protection Clinic. Meredith is a citizen of the world having been born in the Midwest, raised abroad in Amsterdam, NL but returned to the U.S. for high school and college. She moved to Las Vegas after graduating university to work in the trade show industry as an Account Manager.

Christian Ogata is a third-year law student at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a student attorney with the school’s Investor Protection Clinic. He will graduate from Boyd in May 2020. 

Christian was born and raised in Boise, Idaho, and moved to Las Vegas to pursue his undergraduate degree in Political Science at UNLV in 2013. After competing nationally for four years on the school’s policy debate team, Christian began his legal education at Boyd in 2017. 

Prior to law school, I was involved in Nevada’s political field, contributing to the advancement of statewide policies that benefited marginalized communities.

Access and opportunity to pursue a post-graduate education is reserved to a small minority in the United States. As such, I feel a deep sense of accountability to use this privileged position to represent and defend individuals who have been marginalized and attacked.

My passion for public interest work began when I joined Teach For America as a corps member in 2013. One of my greatest accomplishments as a Teach For America corps member was ensuring the inclusion of Latino issues in the general discourse of educational inequity in the Metro Atlanta region.