Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club Upcoming Gatherings & List of Videos

Welcome to Mediate.com‘s ‘Great Reads’ book club with authors of recently published books in both the popular and academic presses. Our goal is to showcase interesting works across the full spectrum of conflict resolution practice and theory.

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Upcoming Book Club Gatherings:

January 20, 2026 – 11am – 12pm PST

Our next “Great Reads” book club event will be a dual conversation with Amy Schmitz and Susan Guthrie, as they both discuss their separate books.

Digital Dispute System Design: Using Technology in Preventing and Resolving Conflicts, First Edition by Amy J. Schmitz and Janet Martinez is a groundbreaking book that will significantly enhance any dispute resolution course.

This book is an essential resource for Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) and Dispute System Design (DSD) courses as well as a valuable supplement for any other dispute resolution course. In today’s swiftly-evolving digital world, technology’s integration into dispute prevention and resolution is crucial.

The Thought Leadership Playbook: How to Get Known, Build Trust, and Grow a Profitable Practice for Lawyer and Dispute Resolution Professionals (The Practice Playbook Series) by Susan Guthrie.

If you are a legal or dispute resolution professional trying to grow your practice, your reputation matters more than ever. But being great at what you do is no longer enough. You need to be known for it.

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Past Book Club Gatherings

Below is a complete look at all of our past book clubs, including video interview and book purchasing information.

• SOLVE
  by Leonardo d’Urso, Constantin-Adi Gavrilă, and Julia Radanova
  
• International Conflict Resolution Processes
  by Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Andrea Kupfer Schneider.
  
• The Guide to Reflective Practice in Conflict Resolution 
  by Michael Lang
  
• What Is Happening to State Trial Court Civil Filings?: The Unsolved Riddle
  by Alan Carlson and John Greacen
  
• Calming the Storm: A Leader’s Handbook for Managing Unproductive Conflicts
  by Peter S. Adler
  
• The Magic in Mediation: A Search for Symmetries, Metaphors and Scale-Free Practices
  by Kenneth Cloke
  
• Rising Above Office Conflict
  by Clare Fowler
  
• The Legal Singularity
  by Abdi Aidid & Benjamin Alarie
  
• Online Dispute Resolution: Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow
  by Colm Brannigan and Marc Bhalla
  
• Transformational Culture
  by David Liddle
  
• Self-Determination in Mediation: The Art and Science of Mirrors and Lights
  by Dan Simon and Tara West
  
• For the Forces of Good: The Superpower of Everyday Negotiation
  by S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour
  
• Holding the Calm: The Secret to Resolving Conflict and Defusing Tension
  by Hesha Abrams
  
• Angels and Earthworms: an unexpected journey to love, joy and miracles
  by Lorraine Segal
  
• Seven Essentials for Business Success: Lessons from Legendary Professors
  by George Siedel
  
• The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
  by Jacob Ward
  
• The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change
  by Bernard S. Mayer and Jacqueline Font-Guzman 
  
• Collywobbles: How to Negotiate When Negotiating Makes You Nervous
  by Moshe Cohen
  
• A REALISTC Framework for Enhancing Communication Relationship-building & De-escalation Skills
  by Richard Moore
  
• America’s Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights 
  by Grande Lum
  
• Embodied Conflict: The Neural Basis of Conflict and Communication
  by Tim Hicks
  
• Psychology for Lawyers: Understanding the Human Factors in Negotiation, Litigation, and Decision Making
  by Jean R. Sternlight and Jennifer K. Robbennolt
  
• Dispute System Design: Preventing, Managing and Resolving Conflict
  by Janet K. Martinez , Lisa Amsler and Stephanie E. Smith
  
• Conflict Management for Managers: Resolving Workplace, Client and Policy Disputes 
  by Susan S. Raines
  
•  High Conflict: Why We get trapped and How we Get Out 
  by Amanda Ripley

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Colin Rule

Since 2020, Colin Rule is CEO of ODR.com, Inc. and Resourceful Internet Solutions, Inc., home of Mediate.com, MediateUniversity.com, Arbitrate.com and CaseloadManager.com.  From 2017 to 2020, Colin was Vice President for Online Dispute Resolution at Tyler Technologies. Tyler acquired Modria.com, an ODR provider that Colin co-founded, in 2017.  Previously, from 2003… MORE >

                       

Clare Fowler

Clare Fowler is Executive Vice-President and Managing Editor at Mediate.com, as well as a mediator and trainer. Clare received her Master's of Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law and her Doctorate in Organizational Leadership, focused on reducing workplace conflicts, from Pepperdine… MORE >

                       

Jim Melamed

Jim Melamed co-founded Mediate.com in 1996 along with John Helie and served as CEO of Mediate.com through June 2020 (25 years).  Jim is currently General Counsel for Mediate.com and ODR.com. During Jim's 25-year tenure, Mediate.com received the American Bar Association's 2010 Institutional Problem Solver Award.  Before Mediate.com, Jim founded The… MORE >