Ask HN: Are lawyers with SWE backgrounds useful?

If I retrained as a lawyer, I know there's basically no way to justify the expense and time switching to a career that isn't really any better in material terms.

But I wonder if there's any niche where a lawyer who also is the rare one with such a strong SWE background could somehow be extra useful somewhere in the industry where the legal/software worlds meet.

I still wouldn't expect the material rewards / worklife balance to be any better and perhaps worse. But maybe with such a valuable niche, if it exists, perhaps someone in my situation could at least eke out a career that is especially satisfying, doing valuable work that not a lot of people can do?

I just have always loved the law for the same reason as code. Systems of rules are fascinating, and the older I get the more I'm bored by the one that governs bytes and more fascinated by the one that governs humans. I'm a human myself.

I probably won't do it anyway because the practical considerations are just too great, but I'm still really fascinated at least hypothetically by these questions.

Does anyone have any thoughts / experience on this? Or any others on the connection between law and software engineering.