Top Ten Mediation Blogs

Top Ten Mediation Blogs

Posted by Joe Markowitz

Following up on a similar post on my political blog, I thought it might be appropriate, after doing this mediation site for about a year-and-a-half, to recognize some of my fellow mediation bloggers.  One reason I started this site was because there didn’t seem to be all that many blogs on mediation, so I thought I might be able to contribute to the discussion.  Since I started, some have dropped out, and new sites have cropped up.  Here is a list of some sites that have mostly been around longer than I have, and that I tend to turn to most often.

1. Settle it Now is a champion mediation blog in terms of sheer productivity.  Victoria Pynchon’s posts are also consistently interesting, and she is fun to argue with.

2. Diane Levin is responsible for Mediation Channelas well as a very comprehensive listing of ADR blogs.  Diane’s blog has been quiet for a couple of months.   I’m hoping that is just a short hiatus.

3. ADR Prof Blogis put out by a group of law professors and is therefore a good source for what is going on in academia in the ADR field.

4. From across the pond, Amanda Bucklow has a good site called Mediation Times.

5. Peter Phillips started his Business Conflict Blog about the same time that I did, and offers a lot of insight into mediating business disputes.

Disputingis a high quality blog dealing mainly with arbitration and related issues, published by Karl Bayer and other attorneys in his office in Texas.

7. This site, Mediation’s Placeis still trying to figure out the place of mediation within or adjacent to our court system, and my own place in it as well.  Since I made the list, of course I made the list.

8. Brains on Purposeis a unique site by Stephanie West Allen that combines neuroscience and conflict resolution.

9. Schau’s Mediation Insights has been around for almost four years.  Jan is a knowledgeable LA mediator who publishes about twice monthly.

10. Phyllis Pollack, another LA mediator, blogs regularly on current mediation law issues and her practice, on her PGP Mediation site.

And since 10 is just an arbitrary number, I should also include Confict Zen by Tammy Lenski, and Enjoy Mediation, by Jeff Thompson, and blogs by some more California mediators, Lorraine Segal, Alec Wisner, and Nancy Hudgins.

And a couple of other relatively new and promising sites: Lee Jay Berman’s Eye on Conflict, and Just Court ADR, put out by Resolution Systems Institute in Chicago.