# kaal:claim:2939127-007

**Claim.** The first generations of Legal Tech did not reduce demand for lawyers; by making far greater volumes of legal material available faster, they created a need for additional lawyers to evaluate that material.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- Legal Tech from the 1970s legal databases through early practice management software

**Source quote.**

> in fact, created the need for additional lawyers to evaluate the new and increasing numbers of legal materials made available faster and more easily accessible by technology.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution* (2017), II. Legal Tech's Disruptive Legal Innovation, page 9

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127

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**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** legal-tech, legal-databases, lawyer-demand, technology-history

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