There are for sure lawyers who know nothing about tech, but there are definitely some who are very strong on tech. Two examples from my personal experience: 1

There are for sure lawyers who know nothing about tech, but there are definitely some who are very strong on tech. Two examples from my personal experience: 1. I know a lawyer who did comp sci at Stanford before doing his law degree at either Yale or Harvard I forget which. He was very knowledgeable about all the licensing, IP protection issues etc relevant to software. 2. I work regularly with an ex-dev who is now a lawyer who specializing in infosec and data privacy issues. He runs packet captures on sites and checks for unintentional data leakage/gdpr violations when sites somewhere call out to google tag manager or put 3rd-party trackers somewhere. In an enterprise context there are a bajillion places this can happen so it's great to have a lawyer who understands what's ok and not but also is technical enough to use curl against a rest api or can run (and understand) packet captures when different web actions occur.