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Lawyers do not write laws. Politician, or at least the writing staff do.

To stick to the analogy I guess:

Lawyers -> Engineers

Policy Writers -> Architects

Politicians -> Executives, Directors, Sales and Marketing

Judges -> QA

Well, lawyers are the plurality of Congresspeople (though their share of Congress has declined over time) https://thepractice.law.harvard.edu/article/declining-domina...

And most (competent) tech leadership were previously technical and are leveraging their expertise also.