Richard S. Granat

Richard Granat is an authority in the intersecting fields of law firm management, legal services delivery, and new media/information technology. He is a lawyer, writer, teacher, and legal systems consultant. His training is in both law (Columbia University School of Law ) and organizational development and information technology.
( University of Pennsylvania, M.S. , Lehigh University, B.A.). He is the Director of the Center for Law Practice Technology, Inc. a non-profit organization engaged in training lawyers in computer technology, and research and development into new ways to deliver legal services using information technology.

He is also technological consultant to the Assisted Pro Se Domestic Law Project; Webmaster for 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, where he also teaches seminars on Computer Applications and the Law and The Technological and Management Environment of Law Practice. He has also taught at Rutgers Law School, Camden, the University of Baltimore Law School, and the District of Columbia School of Law.

Mr. Granat also serves as Chair of the Law Practice Management Section of the Maryland State Bar Association, and Co-Chair of the Technology Task Force of the Maryland Coalition for Civil Justice. Mr. Granat is a member of the Law Practice Management Section, American Bar Association, the Maryland State Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association.

Mr. Granat previously served as the President and Dean of the Philadelphia Institute for Paralegal Training, the nation's first paralegal school, and was President of Automated Legal Systems, Inc., an affiliate of The Institute, that produced Litigation Manager, one of the first microcomputer-based litigation support programs approved by the American Bar Association.