DirectLaw Management Team

Richard Granat is presently Co-Chair of the e Lawyering 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.).

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Grahame Cohen graduated from City University in 1991 with a First Class BSc. Honours degree in Property Valuation and Finance. In 1994 he founded and began trading as Epoch Software (now Epoq Group). In 1996, in conjunction with Richard Cohen development began on the Desktop Lawyer CD-ROM, which was launched in 1997. Since then Grahame has been focusing the Company and its resources on the continuing development of its Rapidocs document automation software and Epoq's technology platform for the delivery of legal services. Along with Richard Cohen, Grahame is a regular speaker for the English Law Society, Scottish Law Society, American Bar Association, Society for Computers and Law and private seminar organizations.

Qualified in 1981 as a solicitor, Richard Cohen has extensive experience in a number of legal areas, and founded the firm of Landau & Cohen which has become a specialist conveyancing firm providing services to a number of high street mortgage lenders. He is a recognized expert on the commoditization and unbundling of legal services and their delivery over the Internet and is a regular speaker for the English Law Society, Scottish Law Society, American Bar Association, Society for Computers and Law and private seminar organizations.

He is one of the founders of and is also the Joint Chief Executive Officer of the Epoq Group, and has been instrumental in the Epoq Group developing a blue chip international customer base. His role focuses on general strategic direction and forging alliances with major corporates and government departments.

Richard has a long history of involvement with community legal advice particularly with the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaus ("NACAB"), chairing Grahame Park CAB for four years and the Barnet CAB Management Committee for three years.

Peter is currently CEO/President, CISION/Europe, Inc. one of the world's leading Public Relations software and information services company. He was previously Executive President, CISION, North America and was the Senior Vice President of Sales & Business Development at MediaMap, which was acquired by CISION in late 2003.

Since 1992, Peter has been instrumental in the development of on-line products and services to enable effective communication between the PR and media communities. He has worked closely with clients to deliver solutions that address a wide range of agency and corporate communications needs. Before joining MediaMap, Peter worked for Springer-Miller Systems in Stowe, Vermont, a leading provider of software based property management solutions. He holds a BA from the University of Vermont and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.

Gregor is a graduate of the University of Scranton and has completed his J.D. at the University of Maryland School of Law. His critical role in our organization includes the development of our web-based applications and relational databases, as well as maintaining all online operations. Gregor was previously an Intranet Administrator with Planning Systems, Inc. and Technical Assistant at the Office of Naval Research.

Pam is Director of Marketing and Law Firm Development. In this role, she manages all online advertising campaigns for our retail operations; coordinates the marketing and lead management of our DirectLaw Virtual Law Firm Service, serving as project and relationship manager. Pam has over 15 years of combined experience in human resources management, sales/marketing, and managing client service operations.

Janelle is an experienced document automation specialist. She has built and maintained custom legal and form templates libraries for public finance companies, including GE Franchise Finance, as well as for commercial real estate and law firms. She also has ten years' experience in corporate communications. As a project manager, she directed in-house creative and project teams that have involved management, finance, sales, and in-house counsel that have produce automated legal forms to satisfy legal and brand standards. She previously worked for GE Capital Franchise Finance where she was responsible for automating over 35 loan document templates. Janelle is a graduate of California Lutheran University in Thousands Oaks, California.

Lynette is a graduate of the University of Maryland, has extensive paralegal experience and was previously employed with Kubovcik & Kubovcik, a Washington DC law firm specializing in patent and trademark law.

Adrienne has had 15 years of writing and publishing experience in transforming unwieldy amounts of complex legal information into useful parcels of organized, enhanced content, tailored to the specific professional needs of lawyers and business people.

Adrienne was previously Director of New Product Development and Executive Editor for ABA Publishing, American Bar Association. In this role, among her other responsibilities, she authored ABA Internet Content Guidelines which are designed to promote best practices in writing for online publications and presenting content online and also produced the ABA Publishing Manual to instruct authors and editors in producing quality and consistent content. She has also served as Senior Legal Editor, Product Development., Dearborn Financial Publishing and Legal Editor, Commerce Clearing House, Inc. (CCH). Adrienne is a graduate of Earlham College, B.A. International Studies, and Indiana School of Law (J.D.). She has also completed all of her course work towards an M.A. in Social Science at the University of Chicago.