Jim Hilbert is an experienced civil rights attorney, negotiator, public speaker and instructor, combining all four disciplines in his approach to using principled negotiation as a tool for solving client problems and promoting social justice. Mr. Hilbert has provided and developed negotiation and conflict resolution training for a wide variety of clients including Thomson West, 3M, Northwest Airlines, Imation Corp., Schwan’s, AstraZeneca, the CCIM Institute, the United Nations, Head Start and the Municipality of Dubai. Mr. Hilbert has personally negotiated the resolution of numerous civil rights and other legal matters, as well as complex, high stakes business deals.

Mr. Hilbert is founder and executive director of the Center for Negotiation and Justice at William Mitchell College of Law, and Vice President of Professional Services for Alignor, an international negotiation firm.

Mr. Hilbert teaches Negotiation and Advanced ADR as an Adjunct Professor at William Mitchell, and has been a Guest Lecturer at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, where he taught negotiation. Mr. Hilbert received his BA from Carleton College, and his JD from the University of Minnesota Law School. He was awarded a fellowship after law school at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Race and Poverty.

Mr. Hilbert has served as a guest speaker at public and private sector conferences throughout the U.S., and has designed and led a variety of courses and workshops for business executives and managers, lawyers, community activists and human resources professionals all across the world.