Richard will teach a course on “unbundling legal services”, both on-line and off-line, with a focus on how to design an “unbundled Family Law practice” at Solo Practice University®
Richard operates a virtual law firm focused on family law based in Maryland from his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He is also the founder and President of DirectLaw, Inc., a company that provides a virtual law firm platform to solos and small law firms.
He is a recognized expert on the delivery of legal services over the Internet. He is presently Co-Chair of the ELawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association and serves on the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services of the ABA. Richard has written extensively on the subject of delivering legal services over the Internet and has written on the subject for the Law Practice Management Magazine of the ABA, the New York State Bar Association Journal, and other bar association journals. He maintains a blog on this subject of eLawyering and a separate web site on the Digital Lawyer.
Richard has taught at the University of Maryland School of Law, the District of Columbia School of Law, and Rutgers School 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.) Richard is also a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management.
I am a Paralegal Diploma Student in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. and am very interested in the theory of “Unbundling Legal Services” and the appliaction of Paralegals in this endevour.