About Richard S. Granat
This blog is authored by Richard S. Granat, an attorney who operates a virtual law firm from Baltimore, Maryland from his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He is also President of DirectLaw, Inc. DirectLaw, is a legal software services company that provides hosted turnkey solutions on the Internet to law firms who want to deliver legal services to their clients over the Internet.
Richard is also presently Co-Chair of the ELawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association and serves on the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services of the ABA and the Council of the Law Practice Management Section, ABA. He is also a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management.
Richard is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bar and has served previously as the chair of the Law Practice Management Section of the Maryland Bar Association. 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 has taught at the University of Maryland School of Law, the District of Columbia School of Law, Rutgers School of Law of Law, courses in Computers and the Law and Law Practice Management. Richard is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law (J.D.), the University of Pennsylvania (M.S.) and Lehigh University (B.A.).
