Stephen Young is a partner in the Boston office of the law firm of Holland & Knight LLP. He concentrates 100% of his time in civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Boston Bar Association, where he was an elected Council member from 1985 through 1987, Chairman of the Association's Tort Committee (1987-1989); chairman of the Association's Litigation Section (1988-1990); and is presently a member of its Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. He was a member of the Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Appointments from 1987 through 1990.

Mr. Young has been a lecturer on various continuing legal education panels regarding business torts, copyright/trademark infringement and personal injury law. He is a certified mediator through the Harvard Law School Mediation Workshop and a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health Negotiation and Conflict Resolution for Healthcare Program. In addition to engaging in private mediation, Mr. Young also is a member of the Middlesex County Multi-Door Courthouse and Massachusetts Bar Association mediator and case evaluator panels; is a member of the commercial panel of the American Arbitration Association; is a member of the Boston Municipal Court mediation panel; and has served as a Special Master through the Middlesex Superior Court and as a Master on construction litigation cases through the Suffolk County Construction Litigation Masters Program.

Mr. Young's publications include "Money Damages in Trade Secret Cases," Trial 3/89, ATLA; "Obtaining and Avoiding Personal Jurisdiction in Massachusetts Over Foreign Corporations," Boston Bar Journal Jan/Feb 1989; "Chapter 93A and the Insurance Industry," Chapter 93A Right and Remedies, MCLE, 1989 with supplements through 2002; and "The Evolving Law of Damages in 93A/176D Cases," Mass. Lawyers Weekly, 9/9/98.

Mr. Young received his B.A. degree from the University of Rochester in 1965 and received his LL.B degree from Boston University School of Law in 1968.