Richard S. Granat

Richard S. Granat, Esq., is the President and CEO of the Epoq, U.S., Inc, the publisher of the Wills On-Line , a member of the Epoq, U.S. family of  legal information web sites.

Richard is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bars and is a nationally recognized expert on delivering legal services and legal information services over the Internet.  Richard presently Co-Chair of the ELawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association, and Reporter for LPM,'s "Best Practices for Legal Information Web Sites.". These Guidelines were  recently approved by the ABA House of Delegates. Richard also previously served as the President and Dean of the Philadelphia Institute for Paralegal Training, the nation's first paralegal educational institution where he pioneered the role of the legal assistant as a new career role within the legal profession. Richard has also also served as a member of the Task Force at the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity that created the National Legal Services Program that provides today provides legal services to low income individuals nationwide.

Mr. Granat has also been:

• Coordinator, research projection on self-help representation. See research on pro se representation at http://www.pro-selaw.org.
• the Founder of the People's Law Library of Maryland;
• a member of the American Bar Association, the Maryland Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association, and he is listed in Who's Who in American Law. He is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law (J.D.); the University of Pennsylvania, (M.S.); and Lehigh University. (B.A.).