Code + Counsel

About · Code & Counsel

The name is the org chart.

Code & Counsel is two people, and the rare part is that both of us cross into both halves. Christian is a licensed attorney (that’s the counsel) who is also a legal engineer (that’s the code): he holds the legal judgment and builds the system. Meagan owns adoption and change management (counsel) and also shapes the code, leading UI/UX design and the personalization that makes each build fit the firm using it.

Almost every legal-AI consultancy is one half of that: a tech shop that has never run a law practice, or an advisor who can’t build anything. This firm is structurally both, because the work fails without either half.

Code Counsel

The systems, the data, the engineering — and the design. What gets built, whether it’s built right, and whether it fits the people using it.

Christian T. BrownAttorney & Legal Knowledge Engineer Meagan Serrano BrownUI/UX design & personalization

The legal judgment, the humans, the daily habits. Whether what gets built is right, and whether it actually gets used.

Christian T. BrownThe legal judgment Meagan Serrano BrownAdoption & change strategy

The founding conviction

“…successful legal tech implementation is not a product problem, but a human one.” Meagan Serrano Brown · Co-founder

This is why the firm has two halves. Software that works is only half the job; the other half is behavior, trust, and workflow, and it’s the half almost everyone skips. Everything Code & Counsel builds assumes the hard part starts after the software works.

We work at the intersection of technology, organizational behavior, and communication, so we tend to catch the human barriers around a tool, not only the technical problem in front of it. That is why our clients already range from a top-tier legal-technology platform down to solo practitioners, and why the same discovery work is now being asked for beyond law.

Who we are

Two people. Both halves.

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Christian T. Brown

The lawyer who builds

Christian T. Brown

Attorney & Legal Knowledge Engineer · Founder

Who

A dual-licensed civil-litigation attorney and the founder of Code & Counsel: he builds the systems, not just advises on them, wiring AI and business intelligence into how a firm actually runs.

Head of Product at Irys Legal AI; formerly Senior Legal Knowledge Engineer at Agiloft.

Track record

$60Bin assets — legal due diligence he led as Managing Director & In-House Counsel at a mortgage fintech.
$20Bin mortgage assets run by a machine-learning decision engine he architected.
13+years across law, technology, and finance.

The path here

Irys Legal AI (Head of Product) · Agiloft (Senior Legal Knowledge Engineer) · a Dallas–Fort Worth mortgage fintech (Managing Director & In-House Counsel).

Education: J.D., Baylor Law — licensed in Texas and Arkansas; B.A. Psychology, Texas A&M.

Meagan Serrano Brown

The strategist who designs

Meagan Serrano Brown

Development & Strategy Lead · UI/UX & Personalization · Co-founder

Who

Leads change management and adoption (meaningful adoption, not a tool that gets bought and quietly abandoned), and owns UI/UX design and personalization so each build fits the firm using it.

Built for “the movers”

Her behavior-based method targets the operational leaders and coordinators who decide whether a platform sticks. Most rollouts pitch the partners and hope; hers starts with the people who carry the change.

1stU.S. nonprofit in-home heartworm program (Texas Foundation for Animal Care), which she co-founded and led.

The path here

Co-founder of Code & Counsel · Executive Director, Texas Foundation for Animal Care · 13 years in events & marketing for Dallas–Fort Worth arts and education nonprofits.

Education: B.A.Sc. in Organizational Leadership, East Texas A&M University; and a degree in Equine Science, North Central Texas College.

Work with us

Both halves, one call.

When you talk to Code & Counsel, you get the engineer, the designer, and the adoption strategist — not one pretending to be the others.

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