Why Some Lawyers Should Be Expert Coders
<p>I have recently come to realize that for people who don’t code, “coding” sounds like something different than it is. It sounds like a craft. It sounds like pottery, or knitting. It sounds hard to do, and designed to create a specific type of object — a computer program.</p>
<p>A computer program is a useful thing, as is a pot, or a sweater, and some of them are even useful to lawyers. But it is not the job of a lawyer to make good sweaters. So coding seems a distraction from our job.</p>
<p>Here’s the thing: for people who have done coding, coding does not seem like a skill. Coding seems like a language used to communicate with the most efficient helpers available. Or, as <a href="https://twitter.com/Colarusso/status/1036603401713410048" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">David Colarusso said on twitter recently</a>, coding is “expressing rules in an unambiguous manner.”</p>
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