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Optimizing Mediation: The Goals of Your Mediation

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Jim Melamed
September 26, 2025

Table of Contents Next The Goals for Your Mediation Fairness and Reasonableness?  Empowerment and Recognition? Our plans often miscarry because they have no aim. When a person does not know what harbor he or she  is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca the Younger One of the essential questions every mediator must…

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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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