The Mediate.com Story: Acknowledgements

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First off, thanks to my parents. To my dad, now deceased at 93, for his modeling of leadership and teamwork, and to my mom, still alive at 96, for her flexibility and adaptability.

And thanks to my lovely wife, Carmen, who somehow tolerates me, and my children, Jeremy and Anna, who, most fortunately, have not taught me much about conflict.

And a special thanks to my partner in visualizing and implementing Mediate.com, John Helie.

Thanks also to colleagues at the University of Oregon Law School: Laird Kirkpatrick, Derrick Bell, Michael Moffitt, Tim Hicks, Jen Reynolds and Jane Gordon.

And thanks to the Clackamas County Conciliation Court and Nolan Jones and Stan Cohen for supervising my law school externship. 

Thanks also to the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), particularly Ann Milne, Peter Salem and Bryan Altman, for decades of cooperative work.

Thanks also to my early legal mentors: Bruce H. Anderson, D. Michael Wells, Dan Neal and Bob Krambs

And thanks to The Mediation Institute in Seattle and Jerry Cormack & Ty Tice for supervising my law school externship.

Thanks to early Eugene, Oregon mediation colleagues: David James, Polly Jamison, John Gartland, Ray Lowe, Kathleen O’Connell Corcoran and Julie Gentili.

Thanks also to co-workers at CADRE, the National Center for Special Education Dispute Resolution:  Marshall Peter, Phil Moses, Dick Zeller, Anita Engiles, Jay Buckley and John Reiman.

Thanks to Bob Barrett and Steve Toben from the Hewlett Foundation.

For their early support at the Center for Dispute Resolution at Willamette Law School in Salem Oregon, thanks to Randy Lowry, Bryan Johnston and Russ Runkle.

For their early mediation leadership in Oregon, thanks to Sid Lezak, Jay Folberg, Alison Taylor and Lois Gold.

For the long-term support of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine Law School, special thanks to Randy Lowry, Peter Robinson, Tom Stipanowich and Lori Rushford.

Thanks also to Jamie Moffitt for providing early financial guidance to Mediate.com.

Thanks to my many friends at the Academy of Family Mediators and Academy of Professional Family Mediators: John Haynes, Stephen Erickson, Lois Gold, Burt Zoub, Jay Folberg, Joan Kelly, Robert Benjamin, Diane Neumann, Nina Meierding, Marilyn McKnight, Zena Zumeta, Michael Lang, Chip Rose, Don Saposnek, Sue Bronson, Sarah Grebe, Nancy Kaplan, Barbara Landau, Nancy Thode, Larry Dragon, Ken Neumann, Steve Abel, Michael Aurit, Karen Aurit and Nina Meierding.

Thanks to all of the mediators who participated in our “Views from the Eye of the Storm” (pioneer) Video Series: Peter Adler, Constance Ahrons, Maxine Baker-Jackson, Howard Bellman, Greg Bourne, Kenneth Cloke, Clarence Cramer, Robert Creo, Steve Erickson, Gregory Firestone, Roger Fisher, Jay Folberg, Larry Fong, Howard Gadlin, David Hoffman, Marvin Johnson, Joan Kelly, Jeff Krivis, Homer LaRue, Michael Lang, John Paul Lederach, Michael Lewis, Sid Lezak, Bill Lincoln, Bernie Mayer, Hugh McIssac, Michael McWilliams, Marilyn McKnight, Nina Meierding, Chris Moore, Diane Neumann, Lisa Parkinson, Leonard Riskin, Peter Robinson, Chip Rose, Colin Rule, Peter Salem, Frank Sander, Don Saposnek, Andrew Schepard, Carl Schneider, Margaret Shaw, Linda Singer, Teresa Wakeen and Zena Zumeta.

Thanks to Ken Cloke, Woody Mosten, Susan Guthrie, Colin Rule, Clare Fowler, Josh Remis, Angela Letney, Peter Adler, Robert Benjamin, Michael Lang, Lee Jay Berman, Robert Bergman, Michael Aurit, Bruce and Susan Edwards, Sam Imperati, Leyla Balakhane, Ron Kelly, Bill Eddy, John Lande, Natalie J. Armstrong-Motin, Nelson Edward Timken, Dan Bernstein, Stephen Kotev and Jeff Kichaven for ongoing inspiration.

Special thanks to Michael Leathes and Manon Schonewille for their leadership on the “Seven Keys” project.

Special thanks also to Robert Benjamin for hosting the “Views from the Eye of the Storm” video interview series, and to Carol Knapp for her videography and hauling the video and lighting equipment around the globe for a decade!

Special thanks to Chip Rose and Don Saposnek for creating our unique mediation humor videos.

Special thanks also to Peter Adler for joining with Mediate.com to sponsor the “Keystone Conference” and for so capably raising issues of Mediation and Leadership.

Special thanks also to Woody Mosten for his pioneering work on so many fronts and for agreeing to so capably lead the Mediate.com Online Mediation Task Force.

Finally, thanks to my new employer and good friends at the American Arbitration Association (AAA), including but not limited to, Harold Coleman, Steven Anderson, Bridget McCormack, Steve Erick, Tracey Frisch, Eric Dill, Sasha Carbone, Janet Miranda, Larry Selby and Eric Tuchmann.

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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