# Lawyer skills

`kaal:entity:lawyer-skills`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `lawyer-skills`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 1 works, 2017 to 2017.

**2017**

- [2939127-001](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-001) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > Key lawyer characteristics and lawyers' core skillsets in the existing legal education and regulatory framework are incompatible with the demands on lawyers of the 21st century.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127
- [2939127-002](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-002) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Disruptive innovation in law renders obsolete many and probably most of the traditional legal skills and characteristics that law schools currently cultivate.
  > Yet, disruptive innovation in law9 obviates many if not most of the traditional legal skills and characteristics of traditional lawyers.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127
- [2939127-035](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-035) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > 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.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127

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