I have a law degree, but I work as a full-stack developer. The shared logical thinking between law and programming is astonishing.

Nevertheless I transitioned from law to working in IT, because of the salary / career options ( being a successful lawyer is magnitude harder ).

As this seems like a crazy idea, I tend to agree that we need more specialised IT lawyers, understanding what's happening down to the byte. Unfortunately the idea folks are not always lawyers, but mostly politicians and this is quite hard to transition to.