[billtoth]

I'm the referenced Bill Toth. Just thought I'd mention the funny fact that in private practice I've actually argued about the significance of database schema (less for security reasons, more for analyzing the outputs of the database).

[shagie]

I always find it interesting to see the people that show up in comments that are the authorities on the matter being quoted and am reminded that hn has a very diverse readership.

One of the things that this also reminds me of is the impression that "learn to code" meant "everyone should be a software developer" when your experiences demonstrate a "learn to code" was part of "becoming a better legal professional".

Do you have other examples of how learning to code improved your abilities as a legal professional?

[billtoth]

Oh sure! I'm an IP litigator, so a lot of what I do entails investigating and explaining how technology (usually implemented in source code) works. We have forensic engineers that do a lot of that work, but it's important to have some lawyers on the team who know to ask the right questions to battle test their own experts' conclusions, cross examine the other side, and turn it into a story for non technical audiences like judges and juries.