# kaal:claim:3227967-002

**Claim.** Lawyers have historically been most effective and most socially useful when acting as transaction engineers who facilitate new business and social relationships, and the engineering of the near future will largely be code based.

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

**Holds when.**

- periods of fast paced technological change

**Source quote.**

> Historically, lawyers have been at their most effective – and socially useful - when they operate as "transaction engineers," i.e., facilitating new forms of business and other social relationships.6 It seems obvious that the "engineering" of the near-future will, to a large extent, be code-based.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, *Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters* (2018), I. Introduction, page 6

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967

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**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, education-and-practice, open-source-and-code

**Keywords.** transaction-engineers, legal-profession, coding-for-lawyers, digital-transformation

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