How Blockchain Technology Is Transforming the Legal Industry

Feb. 20, 2018, 12:31 PM UTC

Blockchain is making its way in to the day-to-day legal practice of major law firms, such as K&L Gates.

It’s not just a technology that law firms are learning about for client matters. Blockchain could become a core way of how the modern legal practice operates.

“You don’t need to be doing initial coin offerings or issuing tokens to benefit from the blockchain,” Judith Rinearson, a partner in K&L Gates’ New York and London offices, told Bloomberg Law. Rinearson is leading an initiative at her firm that aims to eventually build an internal blockchain, which could be used in time-keeping, ...

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