# kaal:claim:2939127-013

**Claim.** The counseling, deal making, matchmaking, gatekeeping, and enforcement roles historically performed by lawyers are increasingly performed by technology, and blockchain technology and smart contracting will accelerate that substitution.

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

**Holds when.**

- transactional legal roles that can be encoded
- near future relative to 2017

**Source quote.**

> However, the counseling, deal-making, matchmaking, gatekeeping, and enforcing roles are increasingly performed by technology.43 This trend is likely to accelerate in the near future, enabled by blockchain technology and smart contracting.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution* (2017), II.3. Changing Legal Practice, page 16

**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, education-and-practice, decentralization, smart-contracts, blockchain

**Keywords.** legal-profession, disintermediation, smart-contracts, blockchain, legal-tech

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