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   "text": "The core lawyer characteristics and skillsets produced by the existing legal education and regulatory framework are incompatible with what the practice of law in the 21st century demands.",
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   "text": "Disruptive innovation in law renders obsolete many and probably most of the traditional legal skills and characteristics that law schools currently cultivate.",
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   "text": "The traditional legal tool kit worked adequately when innovation cycles were long, but where innovation is exponential it is regularly out of touch with the radically different needs of a decentralized world and often produces disastrous outcomes.",
   "abstract": "This approach might have worked adequately when innovation cycles were longer, but in a world where innovations occur exponentially, the traditional legal tool kit is regularly out of touch with the radically different needs of a decentralized world.",
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