# kaal:claim:3227967-009

**Claim.** The major cause of lawyers obstructing transactions is the tendency to standardize or proceduralize legal solutions and to use standard form templates, because fixed standardized solutions imposed on complex, dynamic transactions produce frustration and difficulties.

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

**Holds when.**

- complex, dynamic transactions

**Source quote.**

> This can happen for many reasons but the tendency to standardize – or "proceduralize" - legal solutions and to employ standard form "templates" is one major factor. Fixed and standardized solutions are imposed on complex, dynamic transactions resulting in frustration and difficulties.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, *Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters* (2018), III. Lawyers as Transaction Engineers, page 12

**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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**Failure mode.** Proceduralization of legal solutions  (family: innovation-chilling)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, education-and-practice

**Keywords.** standardization, contract-design, transaction-engineers, legal-profession

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