Description
How will blockchain affect the legal sector? What impact will smart contracts have on contractual law?
Upon successful completion of this course, you’ll able to confidently communicate the potential impact of blockchain in the legal sector to clients, colleagues and friends.
The course is CPD accredited and has a value of 1 CPD point.
A CPD Certified Online Course
This online course has reached the required Continuing Professional Development (CPD) standards and benchmarks, and the learning values have been scrutinised to ensure the integrity and quality by the CPD Certification Service.
Learning objectives
Upon course completion, employees will gain a full and clear understanding of:
- What is a smart contract? How could blockchain be used by a legal firm?
- How smart contracts are relevant to the legal sector
- The challenges of using smart contracts
- How Ricardian smart contracts differ
- How the regulatory environment is developing around blockchain
- How blockchain could be used for Intellectual Property rights management
- The phenomenon of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO’s)
- Blockchain and GDPR
- Blockchain for law real-world case studies
Course assessment and certification
On successful completion of the final assessment a downloadable certificate is immediately available.








