Richard S. Granat is an attorney, author, legal educator, and legal industry entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Law Practice Technology at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida which offers distant learning courses in legal technology to law students and lawyers. He is also the founder and CEO of SmartLegalForms, Inc., a self-help legal information services company, and DirectLaw, Inc., a virtual law firm platform provider to solos and small law firms. In 2009 he was named a "Legal Rebel" by the American Bar Association Journal; in 2010 he was awarded the ABA Louis M. Brown Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovation in the Delivery of Legal Services and in 2013 he was awarded the ABA James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering. A frequent speaker and writer, Richard's articles about virtual lawyering and access to justice have appeared in Law Practice Today, the New York State Bar Association Journal, the Maryland State Bar Association Journal and other legal industry publications. Richard lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and practices law virtually in Maryland and Washington, D.C.