Mr. Young practices in the areas of administrative law and litigation (including regulatory policy and corporate litigation) and election dispute resolution. He is counsel to Sander, Reiff & Young, P.C.

Mr. Young has held numerous senior positions. As a partner at Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Washington, D.C., he was responsible for commercial litigation and technology practice groups. He handled business and tax litigation, antitrust counseling, administrative law matters, and technology company formation and capitalization. He has also worked as counsel to several political committees and commercial and minority businesses. 

He is recognized as one of the nation’s leading electoral recount and dispute resolution lawyers.

Throughout his career, he has counseled major corporations and associations in complex business and antitrust matters, and in significant acquisitions and mergers. He has represented clients before federal courts throughout the United States in complex cases involving antitrust laws, construction, environmental recovery, insurance coverage, and tax resolution.

Mr. Young’s government experience includes service as general counsel to the Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President (2000); a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law (1985-1995); trial counsel at the U.S. Department of Labor (1981-1982); Assistant Attorney General of Virginia (1976-1978); and Counsel to the Virginia State Board of Elections (1976-1978).

Mr. Young’s professional associations included service as Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, as member of the American Bar Association’s Board of Governors, including Chair of the Non-Dues Revenue Committee responsible for nearly fifty percent of the operating revenue of the ABA, and Chair Subcommittee on Evaluation responsible for programmatic and non-programmatic entities. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court Foundation, and is a life member of the American Law Institute, a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association (U.K.).

He is an adjunct professor at William & Mary College School of Law teaching comparative election law, election dispute resolution, redistricting and public participation in the electoral process. Mr. Young serves on the Election Law Advisory Committee of the William & Mary Law School. He has been also an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburg School of Law teaching Democracy and Election Law and at the George Mason School of Law teaching Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Mr. Young is the editor and contributor to International Election Principles (ABA Press 2008) author of Written & Electronic Discovery (with Terrie A. Zall & Alan F. Blakely) (NITA 5th ed. 2009) and Young’s Federal Rules of Evidence (West Pub. 8th ed. 2004 ), as well as articles on antitrust, evidence, and election law.