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   "text": "Future lawyers will have to distinguish blockchain based contracting from traditional legal contracting and advise clients on the optimal allocation between the two.",
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   "text": "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.",
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   "text": "The Universal Digital Law Codex is defined as a codex that combines national law, code, and business requirements, accommodates different legal systems, and contains an inherent dispute resolution mechanism.",
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