Nancy Delain came later in life to the law. In a former existence, she spent 20+ years documenting invention as a technical writer and editor working with such companies as General Electric, 3M, Documentation Strategies, and Telub AB (the last in Växjö, Sweden, where she lived for nearly a year and learned enough Swedish to be dangerous).

After graduating from Franklin Pierce Law Center in the top 20% of her class (while single-parenting her then-preteenaged daughter), she embarked on a solo practice concentrating in transactional intellectual property (patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade dress, trade secret and turning it all into money) and business law (formations and contracts). Nancy is admitted in New York and before the US Patent and Trademark Office, as well as before multiple federal courts, including the US Supreme Court (where she hopes NEVER to appear as an attorney).