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   "text": "Law schools should educate lawyers who add value by helping clients and society adjust to the technological environment rather than lawyers who impose unnecessary or unwise restrictions on it, since such restrictions will not stop technological development anyway.",
   "abstract": "Law schools need to find ways to educate lawyers who can add value in helping clients and society adjust to our increasing technological environment rather than who will create unnecessary or unwise restrictions on it.",
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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.",
   "abstract": "For instance, future lawyers will have to be able to distinguish blockchain-based contracting from traditional legal contracting and advise clients on optimal blockchain and non-blockchain contracting allocations.",
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   "text": "For the parts of dealmaking and other legal tasks that cannot be placed on a blockchain, the role of non blockchainable agents of trust may expand, and blockchain driven disintermediation of law may itself create additional legal tasks requiring human lawyers.",
   "abstract": "For the parts of dealmaking and the other legal tasks that are non-blockchainable, the role for other, non-blockchainable agents of trust may expand. It seems possible that the blockchain-driven disintermediation of law itself creates additional legal tasks that require human lawyer input.",
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