Extract from Alma Asay’s article “Women of Legal Tech: ‘Don’t Second-Guess Yourself,’ Says Mollie Nichols”
There’s a shortage of women in science, technology, engineering and math. But within the legal tech community, there are many women with thriving careers. Legaltech News presents our latest “STEM Cell” profile. Alma Asay recently interviewed Mollie Nichols.
This profile is a continuation of the Women of Legal Tech series originally published by editor Monica Bay “in order to inspire girls, women (and men).” Going forward, we’ll feature women of legal tech who were called out as future “Women of Legal Tech” by prior women profiled in this column.
What is your name and role?
Mollie Nichols, CEO of Redgrave Data.
What first sparked your interest in technology?
As a special assistant to the Texas attorney general around the turn of the century, I was tasked with finding relevant documents in a pharmaceutical industry investigation into their pricing practices. The documents had been produced electronically. In the year 2000, document review tools were not as robust as they are today, so I had my work cut out for me. I found an analytics tool to assist. I drafted a synthetic “smoking gun” document and fed it into the analytics engine. The tool ranked the documents on how close they were to the document that I had drafted. With that, I found one smoking gun after another. This was my “a-ha” moment when I decided to focus my career on incorporating technology into the practice of law, which led to the development of innovative e-discovery programs and, ultimately, the founding of Redgrave Data.
