The work behind JusticeXpress Florida didn't start last year. Our founder helped build the country's legal-aid system, created some of the first legal-information and document-automation sites on the internet, and has been recognized by the American Bar Association and the legal-technology press for decades. Here's the record.
Selected interviews, podcasts, and profiles, 2018–2025.
A career-spanning video interview — from 1960s civil-rights activism to founding the first automated legal-forms site, building DirectLaw, and predicting how AI will reshape legal services. Described as "one of the most influential pioneers in legal technology."
Podcast / Video InterviewA wide-ranging written interview covering the ABA eLawyering Task Force, the People's Law Library of Maryland, the Philadelphia Institute for Paralegal Training, and lessons for the bar's involvement with artificial intelligence.
Blog InterviewA Legal Rebels podcast profile tracing his path from early paralegal-software innovation to MyLawyer.com, SmartLegalForms, DirectLaw, and the People's Law Library — and his view of technology as "a method that enables people to solve their legal problems at low cost."
Podcast ProfileContributed columns on virtual law practice and the business of delivering legal services online, where he is profiled as a recognized expert and recipient of the ABA's Louis M. Brown Lifetime Achievement Award.
Bylined ArticlesFeatured guest discussing secure client portals, the access-to-justice gap, and the experience of building legal businesses, recorded in part at the Florida Bar Annual Convention.
Podcast GuestAn early national television segment on bringing legal forms and information directly to consumers online. Add link before publishing. Also referenced on the DirectLaw About page.
National TV"We can't have a viable legal system unless people can access the legal system."
— Richard Granat, LawDroid Manifesto, August 2025Awards, testimony, and selected publications that established the track record.
Honored by the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services for work exploring technology to create cost-effective legal access for middle-income consumers — and delivered testimony before the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 the same week.
ABA Award · TestimonyCited as CEO of DirectLaw and co-director of the Center for Law Practice Technology, on apps as "an important technology for reaching a latent market of consumers who avoid resolving their legal problems."
Expert CitationIncluding "Law Firm Web Sites That Work" (ABA Journal, 2009), "eLawyering: Providing More Efficient Legal Services" (NY State Bar Association Journal, 2008), and "The Many Faces of e-Lawyering: Everyday Law For Everyday People" (Law Practice Magazine, 2004).
Bylined ArticlesHis blog was named by the ABA Journal among the top blogs covering the business of the legal industry. Continues to publish on virtual law practice and the future of legal services.
Founder's BlogThis track record is the reason JusticeXpress Florida can promise what it does: free legal information for every Floridian, and affordable, Florida-specific documents with no hidden fees. It's the same principle, carried forward for six decades.
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About these references: Links lead to third-party publications and the founder's own sites; JusticeXpress Florida does not control external content. Awards and recognitions are those of the founder, Richard S. Granat. JusticeXpressFlorida.com is a document preparation service, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice. This page is informational and does not create an attorney-client relationship.