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, author, 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. an organization engaged in training lawyers in computer technology, and in research and development into new ways to deliver legal services using information technology.

Richard was the technological consultant to the Assisted Pro Se Domestic Law Project, University of Maryland School of Law; Webmaster and 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, where he has taught taught 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 a member of the Technology Task Force of the Maryland Coalition for Civil Justice. Mr. Granat is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association and a member of the Law Practice Management Section, American Bar Association, where he serves as Chairperson of the Technology 2000 Task Force - Lawyers Serving Society Through Technology.

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.

He is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law (J.D.); the University of Pennsylvania, (M.S.); and Lehigh University. (B.A.)

Recent  Presentations:

Maryland State Bar Association Annual Meeting, "Roundtable on the Future Practice of Law," June 6, 2000.
ABA Tech Show, Presentation of Recommendations of Tech200 TaskForce, March 25, 2000, 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:

The Distributed Telephone Call Center, MIE Exchange, Spring, 2000.
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.