Richard is best known as the Editor-in-Chief of Lexbase Immigration. Lexbase is received by IRCC, CBSA, IRB, DOJ . It is widely circulated within IRCC Management and frontline officers, and at Canadian embassies plus lawyers and consultants who receive this monthly data from Lexbase. CBSA uses Lexbase as a training manual. A 2020 Vancouver Sun article points out that Kurland has been “the lawyer for the lawyer of Edward Snowden".