Center for Conflict Resolution
Jim Alrutz is an experienced Programs Director at the Center for Conflict Resolution, where Jim oversees and develops the Early Resolution Program. Jim also serves as an Adjunct Faculty at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and is the President of the Board of Directors at Kerfuffle Theatre for the Very Young. Previously, Jim has worked in various roles such as Student Adjudications Prosecutor at Chicago Public Schools, Extern at Hillard Heintze, and Sound Designer and Audio Engineer in their self-employed ventures. Jim has a Doctor of Law - JD degree from Loyola University Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Cognition and Sound Design from Northwestern University.
Center for Conflict Resolution
The Chicago based Center for Conflict Resolution is one of the nation's premier not-for-profit providers of mediation services and hands-on mediation training. We maintain a standard of excellence in continuing education recognized by the Circuit Court of Cook County, and our volunteer mediators have handled more than 40,000 disputes since our founding in 1979. Every year, knowledgeable, dedicated volunteers and staff mediate — pro bono — cases with more than 5,000 people, train hundreds of new mediators, facilitate meetings and work with dozens of businesses, government agencies and organizations to create custom-designed dispute resolution systems and training programs.