 Richard S. Granat
Richard is President of
The Granat Group, L.L.C.
Richard has been involved in developing innovative legal services delivery
systems for over 30 years, first as part of the initial working group that
created the National Legal Services Program, and then later as Director of the
Center for Legal Studies at Antioch Law School in Washington, D.C., the nation's
first clinical law school, and later President and Dean of the Philadelphia Institute
for Paralegal Training, the nation's first paralegal school. He was the founding
CEO of Automated Legal Systems, Inc., an affiliate of The Philadelphia
Institute, one of the first legal software companies to publish legal
applications for the personal computer.
Richard is also President of
MyLawyer.com, Inc., and
Epoq US, Inc., and
Chairman of the Center for Law
Practice Technology.
MyLawyer.com, Inc., is the exclusive U.S. licensee of
Rapidocs - a web -enabled document
automation system published by Epoch Software in the United Kingdom. Rapidocs
powers the leading legal information web sites for consumers in the UK,
including: http://www.desktolawyer.co.uk
and http://www.lawasssure.co.uk
Richard is presently co-chair of the
ELawyering
Task Force of the American Bar Association, a project of its Law Practice
Management Section, and LPM Section liaison to the Standing
Committee on the Delivery of LEgal Services of the AMerican Bar Association. He has has served as the Chair of the Law
Practice Management Section of the Maryland State Bar Association.
Richard also served previously as the technological consultant to the Assisted Pro Se Domestic Law Project,
University of Maryland School of Law; Webmaster,
Founder of the People's Law Library of Maryland; and Project
Director and Webmaster of the On-Line
Mediation Project at the University of Maryland School of Law.
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Recent Presentations:
Maryland State Bar Association Annual Meeting, "Roundtable on the Future
Practice of Law," June 16, 2002.
ABA Tech Show, Presentation of Recommendations of Tech2000 Task
Force, March 25, 2000,
2001, Chicago, Illinois.
Tech2000 Task Force Conference: "Unbundling Legal Services and the Internet- Phase
II" - March 23, 2000.
The Maryland State Bar Association Annual Meeting, "The Virtual Law Firm", Ocean
City, Maryland, June 10, 1999.
Scottish Society for Computers and Law, Glasgow, Scotland, "The Impact of the
Internet on "Unbundled Legal Services", May 10, 1999,
ABA Tech Show, Decision-Makers Roundtable, Chicago, Illinois, March 17, 1999
Maryland State Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting, Design Web Sites, Baltimore, Maryland,
February 19, 1999.
Endnote Speech. American Bar Association, 1998 TECHSHOW, Chicago, March 29, 1998.
Mid-Year Meeting, Maryland State Bar Association,
"Practicing Law in a Digital Age," February 21, 1998
Recent Articles:
Extranets: Creating the Collaborative Law Practice
From Legal Services to Information Services, Internet
Practice Newsletter, May, 1997.
Creating An Environment for Mediating
Disputes On the Internet, A Working Paper for the NCAIR Conference on On-Line Dispute
Resolution, May, 1996.
Creating A Pro Se (Self-Help) Legal
Information Kiosk on the Internet, MIE Exchange, October, 1996.
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