The Trellis Blog

  • NICOLE CLARK The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything. And, 22 months later, the legal implications of these changes remain largely unknown. Across the United States, the number of coronavirus-related complaints filed in federal and state courts continues to rise. These legal actions are complex. They’re testing contemporary legal understandings of negligence, causation, and liability, terms that… Read More

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  • Nicole Clark is a business litigation and labor and employment attorney who has handled litigation in both state and federal courts. She’s worked at a variety of law firms ranging from mid-size litigation boutiques to large firms, and is licensed to practice law in three states. She has defended corporations and employers in complex class… Read More

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  • Originally published on Attorney at Work. Legal analytics helps litigators identify business development opportunities by tracking case activity, analyzing litigation patterns, and surfacing insights about prospective clients. In this article, Nicole Clark explains how attorneys use that data to inform outreach while still relying on relationships to convert opportunities into new work. Read the original… Read More

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  • How can AI be used for legal research purposes by legal teams?  Artificial intelligence is changing how legal teams conduct research by making large volumes of court data searchable, structured, and comparable. In state trial courts—where data has historically been fragmented and difficult to access—AI can aggregate records across jurisdictions and extract key information from… Read More

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  • Most state trial court intelligence has historically lived in attorneys’ inboxes, internal notes, and anecdotal conversations—not in searchable systems. That creates a real strategic blind spot. How does a particular judge tend to rule? How often has opposing counsel argued this issue? What motion patterns emerge across similar cases? Trellis was built to answer those… Read More

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