Best Mediation Websites of 2026: What a Mediator Website Needs

An attorney proposes a mediator. Opposing counsel types the name into Google, and within a few minutes the decision is made. Whatever the mediator's website shows in that window does most of the work: the years in practice, the kinds of cases, whether the mediator has sat on the bench, and whether there is an open date before the discovery deadline.

That referral check is the same one we described when we first published this list in 2023. What has changed is how much of it now happens before anyone reaches the website. When the Pew Research Center tracked the Google searches of 900 U.S. adults in 2025, people clicked through to a regular search result in 8% of visits when Google showed an AI summary at the top, about half the 15% rate on pages without one. A mediator's website now has two readers: the lawyer who clicks, and the AI summary that answers for the lawyers who don't. Both need the same facts, written plainly on the page.

We went back through mediator and ADR (alternative dispute resolution) websites across the country this fall and checked every site below live in October 2026. Some belong to solo mediators and some to firms with more than a hundred neutrals (the mediators and arbitrators on a firm's roster), and two were on the 2023 list. Each does something a mediator planning a new website should copy.

Here are this year's picks:

1. Best solo mediator website: Shipp ADR, Dallas
2. Best neutral search: Miles ADR, with offices in a dozen cities
3. Best group practice: Lakeside Mediation, Austin
4. Best for divorce and family mediation: Families First Mediation, California
5. Best scheduling page: DeGroote Partners, Dallas
6. What we build for mediators: the Law Office of Alfred T. Denham, McAllen

Best Solo Mediator Website: Shipp ADR

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John B. Shipp's homepage fits on one screen. A large portrait of Shipp sits beside the headline "Our mission is resolution," his title and city, and a single button that reads "Click to Schedule a Mediation." Further down the page, a short bio covers what opposing counsel checks first. Shipp earned his law degree at Texas Tech, clerked for the Tenth Court of Appeals, has practiced in Dallas-Fort Worth since 1996, and opened his own dispute resolution practice in 2013.

The schedule page is where the site earns its place on this list. "The calendar below is updated in real time," it says, "and you can view and book any available date." The calendar comes from the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN), a membership group for civil mediators and arbitrators whose shared booking calendar many Texas mediators embed on their own sites. Above the calendar, the page states the one rule that would otherwise cost a phone call: Shipp ADR doesn't offer half-day mediations.

Homepage

Schedule page

A Downloads menu holds what a case needs before the session: Shipp's CV for the referral check, an intake form for the position statement (each side's summary of the case, sent before the session), his rules of mediation, and a resource guide for anyone joining by Zoom. The site's strength is completeness: an attorney can go from the name to a booked date without speaking to anyone. In Houston, Michael Hawash's site goes a step further and puts the same real-time calendar on the homepage itself, under the line "Check Availability. Book In Real Time."

Best Neutral Search: Miles ADR

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A solo mediator's site answers one question about one person. A firm's site has to answer a harder one: which of our neutrals can hear this kind of case, in this city, before the deadline? Miles Mediation & Arbitration, which now runs at milesadr.com with offices from Atlanta and Houston to Boston and Denver, answers it on a single page. The panel page invites visitors to "Filter by location, specialty, and availability," and when we checked it listed 135 neutrals. Every card shows the neutral's city, practice-area tags, and the next open date, such as "Available Oct 20." There is also a date field, so an attorney working against a deadline can start the search from the date.

The firm also sells speed directly. Its ADR OnDemand service schedules a virtual mediation "as early as the next day" for cases expected to take less than three hours, and connects the parties with a mediator within 24 hours.

Miles ADR

Judicate West

California's Judicate West handles the same problem from the homepage. A "Find Your Neutral" bar sits directly under the hero, and one of its four filters is Time Frame, which runs from "Next 2 Weeks" out to "90 Days +." The location filter includes "Available via Zoom" alongside the firm's offices. For a firm with dozens of neutrals, availability is often the filter that decides the booking, and both sites put it where nobody has to look for it.

Best Group Practice: Lakeside Mediation

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Lakeside Mediation in Austin was our pick for best design in 2023, and it still earns a place by leading with how the group works today. The hero reads "Find your path forward" over the line "Peaceful, efficient dispute resolution done virtually," with a "Schedule Mediation Online" button beneath it. Further down, the homepage says plainly how sessions run: "All of our mediators mediate virtually via Zoom, but Jeff Jury will conduct in-person mediations in Austin, if desired."

The Zoom line settles the first logistics question a referring attorney has, and it settles it before anyone calls. The homepage then shows all eleven mediators in a grid with a headshot and a direct email address for each, which lets an attorney who already knows the name skip the front desk entirely. A credentials list on the homepage names the firm's members of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and its Credentialed Distinguished Mediators, a designation from the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association. A group practice is selling a bench of people, and Lakeside gives each one the same weight on the page.

Best for Divorce and Family Mediation: Families First Mediation

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Civil mediators market to lawyers. Divorce mediators market to people in the middle of one of the hardest years of their lives, most of whom have never been to a mediation and don't know what one involves. Families First Mediation in California writes for that reader. The hero promises "Work With The Best Divorce Mediators In California," notes that "Each of our mediators has over 20 years of family law experience," and offers a free consultation in both the header and the hero.

The section we would point any family mediator to is the process. "Our Proven Mediation Process for California Divorces" walks through four numbered steps, from booking a free consultation to mediating an agreement, completing the required financial disclosures, and submitting the final agreement to the court as the divorce judgment. It ends with the two facts a nervous visitor most wants to hear: "You won't have to go to court. Most of our parties finish in less than 6 months."

A carousel of verified client reviews follows, with a link to the full reviews page. Reviews carry more weight in family mediation than in civil work, because the person hiring the mediator is the person who will sit in the session.

Our 2023 pick for best marketing, Kim Mediation and Law in Los Angeles, is still a strong example of the content side of this work. Its blog published new articles on September 28, October 8, and October 15 this year, answering questions like "Can Mediation Be Successful When We Disagree on Everything?", and a free e-book titled Is Divorce Mediation Right for Me? gives undecided visitors a reason to leave an email address.

Best Scheduling Page: DeGroote Partners

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John DeGroote's schedule page opens with three words: "Time kills deals." It is the most direct statement of a mediator's point of view we found on any booking page, and the copy beneath it is just as efficient. Visitors view the open dates on the calendar, click one "to place it on hold," and the team follows up to confirm. Before the calendar appears, the page answers the questions that would otherwise start a phone call. DeGroote conducts full-day mediations only, and he will mediate in person at the firm's Deep Ellum ADR Center in Dallas, by Zoom, or by a combination of the two.

A hold gives the office time to confirm the details while the attorney still gets the date the moment they decide. The rest of the site carries the same voice. A Perspectives section collects DeGroote's presentations, speeches, and articles, and links to his earlier blog, Settlement Perspectives. For a mediator whose reputation rests on how he thinks about settlement, that writing is part of the referral check.

What We Build for Mediators

We put the Law Office of Alfred T. Denham on the 2023 version of this list and admitted the bias at the time: we built the site. Three years later it remains the clearest example of how we approach a mediation website, so here is what's on it and why.

Alfred T. Denham has practiced law since 1983 and has offered mediation and arbitration since 1997, from a McAllen practice that has mediated more than 5,500 cases in areas like personal injury, products liability, employment, insurance, and real estate. Justice Nora Longoria joined as a second mediator after 12 years on the Texas 13th Court of Appeals and more than 34 years in law. Like most civil mediators, they get their work through attorney referrals, so the website has one job: let a lawyer who has just heard the name confirm the credentials and get a date on the calendar.

A booking calendar for each mediator

"Book Alfred" and "Book Nora" sit in the header of every page, and the homepage hero repeats them as "Book with Alfred" and "Book with Nora." Each one opens that mediator's own calendar, a booking tool we built for the practice. An attorney clicks an open date, chooses a morning, afternoon, or full-day session, and fills in their contact details, the attorney's name, and the case style (the case name as it appears on the court filings). The date shows as Pending until the office confirms it, then changes to Booked. Arbitration can only be scheduled with the mediator's written approval, and the page says so above the calendar.

The calendar also shows how busy the practice is. When we checked in mid-October, two afternoons were still open on Mr. Denham's calendar for the rest of the month. An attorney who finds his month full can open Justice Longoria's calendar from the same header and book her instead, without a phone call to ask who is free.

Two mediators with equal weight

Justice Longoria's section of the homepage and her profile page carry the same photography, the same structure, and the same booking button as Mr. Denham's. Her profile covers the case types she has handled, from personal injury and product liability to family law and probate matters, along with her appellate background, her certification as a mediator since 2002, and her membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates. Mr. Denham's covers his trial work for both plaintiffs and defendants and his AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell. A referring attorney can compare the two in one read.

Justice Longoria

Alfred T. Denham

Photography of the real rooms

The photographs of both mediators were taken in the practice's own conference rooms, and a "Take a Tour of Our Facilities" gallery shows the rooms where sessions happen. The homepage describes a main meeting room with multiple breakout rooms, so each party has privacy, and lists what a full-day session includes, from high-speed internet to lunch, with accommodations for dietary needs. Those details answer what a party wants to know before arriving in the morning: what the day will look like.

Built for the phone in the hallway

Many referral checks happen on a phone, right after a hearing or in a courthouse hallway. On a phone, the booking buttons sit just under the headline, and the calendar drops its weekend columns so the weekday slots stay large enough to tap.

We build websites for mediators, law firms, and other practices where clients choose counsel in a few minutes. Our legal industry page covers how we approach that work, and the Alfred T. Denham case study has more on this project.

What Mediators Can Take From These Sites

The sites on this list look very different from one another. Shipp ADR is one portrait and one button, Miles ADR is a searchable panel of more than a hundred neutrals, and Families First reads like a calm guide for someone going through a divorce. Each one knows exactly who is visiting and what that person needs to decide. For a civil mediator, that visitor is a lawyer with a deadline, and the decision is whether to propose your name and which date to hold. For a family mediator, it's a member of the public deciding whether mediation is even right for them.

The biggest change since 2023 is how much of that decision now happens without a phone call. Real-time calendars have become common enough that an attorney who can't find open dates on a mediator's site may simply move on to one who shows them. Zoom has settled in as a normal way to mediate, and the best sites say up front whether a session is virtual, in person, or either. And because many searches now end at an AI summary, the facts that win the referral check need to be written in plain sentences on the page. A credential that only appears inside a photo or a PDF is easy for a summary to miss.

A solo practice can do all of this. Most of what sets these sites apart is a clear page for each mediator, an honest description of how sessions run, and a calendar the mediator actually keeps current.

Did We Miss One?

We found these sites through search and the directories attorneys use, and we certainly missed some good ones. If your mediation website belongs on this list, send it over.

Alfred T. Denham's website is live at alfredtdenham.com. Built by MPC Studios.

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