# Legal services

`kaal:entity:legal-services`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `legal-services`. 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

4 claims across 4 works, 2017 to 2019.

**2017**

- [2939127-008](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-008) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The decentralization of law pursued by Legal Tech startups has broad repercussions for the legal profession, the first of which is that existing legal services are rendered increasingly irrelevant or are replaced outright by Legal Tech.
  > The decentralization of law that is a central part of the startup companies' purpose and that disrupts existing legal practices has broad repercussions for the legal profession. First, existing legal services are rendered increasingly irrelevant or are replaced by Legal Tech.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127
- [2998033-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2998033-003) [predictive/argued] -- Business, administrative and legal services that consist of keeping ledgers, such as notary and registry services, legal motions practice, and title companies, are likely to be among the first services eliminated by blockchain adoption.
  > Forms of keeping business and legal ledgers such as notary and registry services, legal motions practice in court, legal title companies, among several others, may be among the first services to disappear in the not too distant future.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Innovation for Private Investment Funds (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2998033
- [3071378-007](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3071378-007) [predictive/speculative] -- Ledger-keeping legal services such as notary and registry services, legal motions practice in court, and legal title companies are likely to be among the first services to disappear.
  > Forms of keeping legal ledgers such as notary and registry services, legal motions practice in court, legal title companies, among several others, may be among the first services to disappear in the not too distant future.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378

**2019**

- [3409548-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3409548-013) [predictive/argued] -- Business, administrative, and legal processes that depend on legal intermediaries may become redundant as blockchain technology advances and is accepted, with ledger keeping services such as notary and registry services, motions practice, and title companies among the first to disappear.
  > Business, administrative, and legal processes that rely on legal intermediaries may become redundant because of advances in and acceptance and implementation of blockchain technology.
  Kaal, Financial Technology and Hedge Funds (2019). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3409548

## Verify

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