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Mr. Young is a business and corporate lawyer, with over 40 years as an attorney and counselor to a wide variety of business enterprises. Chairman of the firm's Energy Law Practice Group, he served as general counsel of Peabody Coal Company and its affiliates for 17 years prior to joining the firm in 1986. He provides a wide variety of legal services relating to business transactions of all types, coal industry transactions in particular, and serves the City of Warson Woods, Missouri as city attorney. He is also active in promoting the use of alternative dispute resolution.

Mr. Young has served as an arbitrator in numerous business-related disputes during the past 15 years. He is a member of the large-complex case panel of the American Arbitration Association, and he has various advanced training programs of that organization. He is also on the panel of Pinnacle, a St. Louis-based organization which provides arbitration and mediation services. He also provides mediation services, and has completed the two-day training program of the American Academy of Attorney Mediators.

Bar Admissions:

Missouri, 1954

U.S. Supreme Court, 1970

Professional Associations and Memberships:

Westminster College, Board of Trustees and Executive Committee
Chairman

University of Missouri - St. Louis, Chancellor's Council
Secretary

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
Member

The Missouri Bar
Member

American Bar Association
Member

Eastern Mineral Law Foundation
Trustee

American Arbitration Association
Member

Education:

The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1954
J.D.
Honors: Order of the Coif
Law Review: Michigan Law Review, Associate Editor, 1953 - 1954

Westminster College
B.A.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude

Prior Professional Experience:

State Environmental Improvement and Energy Resources Authority, Member, 1982 - 1987

United States Air Force, Captain, 1955 - 1957

General Counsel, Peabody Coal Company