RICHARD GRANAT – Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of DirectLaw, Inc., and Epoq US, Inc. will be authoring the eLawyering Guru blog here on LegalQB.com.  Watch for its debut soon!

Richard Granat is presently Co-Chair of the eLawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section and is a member of the Section Council of the American Bar Association and serves on the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services of the ABA.   Richard is also a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bar and was, 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 in the early 1980s.

Prior to Richard’s involvement in the online delivery of legal services, he founded one of the first distance education learning companies, increasing revenues 20 fold in a five year period. He has also served as Vice President of University Research Corporation, a professional services firm based in Washington, D.C.

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. in Organizational Development) and Lehigh University (B.A.).