Jim is an arbitrator and mediator of domestic and international commercial disputes, a negotiation educator, and a corporate board director. He is a neutral on the panels of multiple domestic and international arbitration and mediation administrators, including the AAA’s large, complex commercial disputes and master mediator panels.

Jim practiced law in Chicago, IL for 19 years before taking over and running as CEO and chairperson a failing chain of Chinese cell phone stores, which he turned around, took public on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market, and grew from US$2.9 million to over a quarter billion dollars in annual revenue.  As a corporate board director, Jim has held the position of chairperson and served as chair or a member of the governance, CEO search, strategic planning, and compensation committees.

Jim limits his ADR practice to domestic and international commercial disputes.   Recent cases concerned M&A agreements, vendor/supplier agreements, construction and development agreement disputes, manufacturing agreements, joint venture agreements, licensing agreements, crypto-currency mining disputes, and intellectual property rights. He is a member of the faculty of the Oxford Programme on Negotiation, University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, Oxford UK, the author of the multiple award-winning book, Negotiation Simplified, and holds nineteen domestic and international patents for aerodynamic and structural devices.

More information about Jim see www.ReimanADR.com.

Jim’s cell phone number is +1 847 778-2195.