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By Dispute Resolution Section

March 1, 2018

Members in the News

3.1.2018

By Dispute Resolution Section

Where Are the Women Arbitrators? The Battle to Diversify ADR

Winter 2018, ABA Perspectives

When Laura Kaster was a young lawyer in 1975, she was accustomed to being the only woman in the room. But by the time she left Jenner & Block in Chicago in 1997 to work at AT&T Corporation, there were many women partners. In 2007, she founded her Princeton, New Jersey, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practice and immediately noticed something. “I was surprised how white and male [the field] was—it was like when I first started—it was quite shocking to me.”

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