I am always excited to meet and interview lawyer entrepreneurs who have wonderful stories about their “a-ha” moment — usually a moment of profound frustration while sitting at their desk at work on an assignment. Universally, they describe an interior voice yelling, “There has got to be a better way.” I am especially excited today to be having my first interview with a female legal tech entrepreneur: Nicole Clark, CEO of Trellis. 

My conversation with Clark reminded me of a quote from Goethe: “Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”  Nicole has no small dreams. She describes her product as the “Google of legal analytics” and proclaims that Trellis “will own the state court data and analytics space” in the future.

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