•Clients involved in blockchain, AI, cybersecurity put pressure on firms’ recruiting
•States, bar associations revise standards to include tech knowledge
Memo to lawyers: free your inner computer nerd if you want to represent today’s clients.
Take Patrick Berarducci, a lawyer whose resume also includes a background in computer science and software engineering. He was quickly snatched up by the blockchain company ConsenSys to make sure the developing technology complies with existing laws and regulations.
“There’s a real shortage” of lawyers like him, John Wolpert, ConsenSys’ product executive, told Bloomberg Law. “We need a lot more code-y lawyers, as I say.” ...
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