# kaal:claim:3227967-011

**Claim.** Legal tech will profoundly disrupt the legal profession, and because these technologies are code based, lawyers must be able to understand and talk about code in order to participate in designing them.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- legal technologies built on software code

**Source quote.**

> "Legal tech" will profoundly disrupt the legal profession18 and since these technologies are code-based lawyers need to be able to understand and talk about code to participate in the design of such legal technologies

**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 13

**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.** legal-tech, coding-for-lawyers, technology-design, legal-profession

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