For young professionals hoping to build a career in the legal sector, lifelong learning may have to amount to more than just joining the neighborhood book club. As law schools build out their curriculum to prepare students for an evolving marketplace that is still trying to decide where it stands on technologies like blockchain, the real challenge could be anticipating what a competitive resume will look like circa 2022.

“We know that technology changes at warp speed. … If you’re in business you make adjustments all the time too, and law schools perhaps for too long were exempt from those kinds of pressures. [Now] law schools have to keep an eye on the market,” said Harold Krent, dean of the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology.