Nicole Clark is a litigator turned technology company CEO.
As a litigator, she saw a pain point in state court litigation. She wanted to be able to access and search state court data. She was often frustrated by sending internal emails and collecting anecdotes on judges in order to make strategic case recommendations.
She had an idea to solve this problem. She sought the help of engineers to build a platform to be able to search across state court records. While still practicing law at a law firm, she created Trellis, a comprehensive AI-powered state court research and analytics platform.
In this episode, Nicole shares about her passion for helping lawyers leverage technology in their practice, her journey as an entrepreneur, what it was like to make the leap from the practice of law to being a full-time business owner, and what that has meant to her and her family.
Nicole Clark
Prior to founding Trellis, Nicole Clark was a business litigation and labor and employment attorney who handled litigation in both state and federal courts. She regularly represented multinational corporations in claims ranging from high-profile trade secret disputes to complex class-action litigation. Frustrated by sending internal emails and collecting anecdotes on judges in order to make strategic case recommendations, she built Trellis to solve her own need for access to data, information, and analytics at the state trial court level. Prior to law school, Nicole attended Bard College, beginning her college coursework at the age of sixteen. She graduated with honors from University of Massachusetts Amherst with a BA in Journalism, and received her Juris Doctorate from Rutgers School of Law in Newark, NJ. Nicole sat for the Bar Exam in California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and remains licensed to practice law in all three states.