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Richard S. Granat, Esq. is the founder and CEO of SmartLegalForms, Inc., MyLawyer.com, Inc., and DirectLaw, Inc. Richard created one of the first virtual law firms in the United States at MDFamilyLawyer.com and GranatWills.com.
Richard is a member of the American Bar Association, the Maryland State Bar Association, and the District of Columbia Bar Association and Co-Chair of the eLawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section of the ABA. He also serves on the ABA Standing Committee for the Delivery of Legal Services. In 2009, he was recognized as a "Legal Rebel" by the American Bar Association Journal. In 2010, Richard received the Louis M. Brown Life Time Achievement Award from the American Bar Association, for his work in enabling affordable access to legal services for those of moderate income. Richard is also a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management and a member of the faculty at Solo Practice University. Richard was previously the President and Dean of the Philadelphia Institute for Paralegal Training, the nation's first paralegal training school.
Grahame Cohen is a member of the Board of Directors of the company and also Co-CEO of Epoq UK. Grahame 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.
Richard Cohen is a member of the Board of Directors of the Company and also Co-CEO of Epoq UK , with his brother Grahame. 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.
Gregor Weeks is Chief Technology Officer for the company and the architect of the DirectLaw Virtual Law Firm Platform, for the US and the United Kingdom. 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 web site operations. Gregor was previously an Intranet Administrator with Planning Systems, Inc. and Technical Assistant at the Office of Naval Research.
Pam Andrews 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 20 years of combined experience in human resources management, sales/marketing, and managing client service operations.
Janelle Minter is Director of the company's Document Automation Group.
She is an experienced document automation
specialist. She has built and maintained custom legal and form template
libraries for public finance companies, including GE Capital
Franchise Finance, as well as for commercial real estate and law firms.
She also has ten years' experience in corporate communications. In this
profession, she directed in-house project and creative teams that
involved management, finance, sales, and in-house counsel to develop
shareholder reports, research publications and marketing materials
conforming to legal and brand standards. She previously worked for GE
Capital Franchise Finance where she automated and maintained all loan
documents and trained counsel and personnel as end users of automated
documents. Janelle is a graduate of California Lutheran University in
Thousands Oaks, California.
Lynette Mahaney is Director of Customer Support for all of the companies and leads the customer support team. She 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 Cook leads the legal research team and is responsible for developing legal content for the companies web sites. Adrienne has had15 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.
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