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The Mediate.com Story: An Optimized Mediation Advocacy Organization?

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August 4, 2025

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An Optimized Mediation Advocacy Organization?

I am personally convinced that our ever-improving and empowering mediation process deserves and needs a most effective mediation advocacy organization. So, the current main question for me is:

How can we best consider and implement a highly effective mediation advocacy organization to expand and elevate mediation use going forward?

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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

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