LEGAL GEEK COMMUNITY NEWS - MARCH 2025
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Nicole Bradick has been at the forefront of legal tech innovation for years, founding and leading multiple companies, including Theory and Principle – now part of Factor Law as of February 2025. We spoke to Nicole about her journey from trial lawyer to legal tech leader, what excites her about joining Factor, and why legal teams can no longer ignore good design.”
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your background?
I started my career as a trial lawyer and then moved into the legal tech/legal innovation space, founding and running several companies. My third business, Theory and Principle, was just acquired by Factor Law. At T&P, we design and build custom software for the entire legal industry, including some of the most important, exciting and impactful law firms, legal tech companies, and legal aid organizations. When I’m not legal tech-ing, I love languages, couture, and karaoke.
What does joining Factor mean for your company, your team, and the work you do? What excites you most about this next chapter?
Joining Factor gives us access to a lot more resources, including their existing R&D team who have spent countless hours digging deep into building highly sophisticated AI solutions to solve legal problems. As a small business, we spent as much time as we could on R&D, but had to remain responsive to client demands and projects so we didn’t have the capacity to dive as deep as we wanted on some of the opportunities AI has created. Combining our product expertise with their deep domain expertise and R&D is going to make for some very meaningful solutions, which is very exciting for us. So with Factor, we have a home where we can keep serving our clients as we were, but get to expand into doing some more sophisticated AI work and longer term internal projects. We also are able to move more into the in-house market as well.
If you could give one piece of advice to legal teams looking to improve their use of design, what would it be?
Honestly, I think the days of building products without the help of a designer are past us. I think you maybe could have gotten away with it 5 years ago in the name of just trying to get functionality out the door, but now it’s imperative to have a designer on board, even if just on a contract basis. Whether you’re building things for clients, lawyers, or the public, people are extremely busy and touch dozens of digital products in a typical day. If you want them to spend time in the one you’re building, the user experience needs to be well thought out and meet at least basic visual standards in order to build trust. So, that’s my advice: Don’t rely on your devs or your project team to “design.” Get an actual designer.
Catch Nicole speaking at Legal Geek North America in Chicago on June 17, 2025!
MD Communications Legal 5k run is back in 2025!
Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, the Legal 5K returns on Thursday, 24 April, for a fun and friendly race in Regent’s Park! Open to all levels, this is your chance to promote health and wellness in the legal sector while enjoying a great evening with colleagues.
There’s also a team competition to crown the fastest law firm and Chambers, along with prizes for the fastest individuals. New for this year, there’s a category for the fastest Managing Partner, alongside the existing categories for fastest man, fastest woman, and fastest person over and under 45. For those who took part last year, there are also prizes for the most improved team and individuals.
Get moving, connect with new and old colleagues, and race for a good cause! More information here.
Have your say: Gender, AI and the legal profession
Linklaters, She Breaks the Law, and The Next 100 Years have launched a follow-up survey to explore how legal professionals are using AI in their daily work. Building on insights from the No Woman Left Behind report, this new survey dives deeper into real-world AI adoption across genders.
Your input matters! Take just five minutes to share your experience and help shape the conversation on AI in the legal profession. Get involved!
That’s a wrap for this edition – but we’re just getting started! Check back next month for more community highlights, and ways to get involved.
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