Legal AI Updates, News & Thought Leadership

Our opinions and sandpapers on legal, engineering, product, and design.

Featured

AI Hallucination Guardrails: When AI Is Right, But Risky

AI hallucination guardrails catch fabricated output, but accurate AI without business context can still create risk. Here's what in-house legal teams need to trust AI.

Legal Workflow Design

Nick Fleisher Sep 28, 2026

Sandstone Theory- What It Means to Be Set in Sandstone

The legal departments we admire most have that quality. They are not rigid — they adapt constantly to new regulations, new business models, new commercial realities.

Jarryd Strydom Jun 9, 2026

F

Becoming AI-Native

Why Legal Knowledge Management Matters for In-House Teams

See how AI-native legal knowledge management helps in-house teams capture precedent, cut duplicate work, and retain institutional knowledge.

Nick Fleisher Oct 7, 202611 min read

Legal-Business Context

Why Legal Teams Need a Context Engine, Not Another Chatbot

Chatbots don't know your playbooks or deal history. Learn how a context engine gives in-house legal AI the institutional knowledge it needs to be useful.

Nick Fleisher Oct 5, 20268 min read

Becoming AI-Native

Will AI Replace Junior Lawyers on In-House Teams?

AI is taking over the repetitive work that used to fill a junior lawyer's week. Here's what that means for early-career counsel on in-house teams, and the skills that matter now.

Jarryd Strydom Oct 1, 20268 min read

Alternative Legal Fee Arrangements: What GCs Get Wrong

GCs who want fee arrangements that hold need precise scope, historical matter data, and the confidence to lead the negotiation. Here are the five most common AFA mistakes and how to fix each one.

Jessica Nguyen Sep 23, 2026

The Impact of AI on Legal Billing: How the Billable Hour Changes

AI is removing hours from legal work faster than firms are repricing it. How in-house teams can turn that gap into leverage on rates, AFAs, and outside counsel spend.

Jarryd Strydom Sep 21, 2026

How to Prevent Legal Burnout Before It Costs Your Team

Burnout is quietly reshaping in-house legal teams. Learn to spot the warning signs and use operational tools — intake, triage, and workload visibility — to stop attrition before it starts.

Nick Fleisher Sep 16, 2026

5 Questions to Ask AI Legal Software Vendors Before You Buy

Capture in-house legal teams in active vendor evaluation, using the evaluation framework to steer buying criteria toward Sandstone's strengths.

Jessica Nguyen Sep 14, 20265 min read

Building a Legal Intake Process Executives Will Actually Follow

How to design a legal intake process that in-house teams will actually use, from capturing requests across channels to AI-powered triage and routing with Sandstone.

Jarryd Strydom Aug 31, 20265 min read

Why Legal Ops Change Management Keeps Failing Your Team

Help legal ops leaders understand why change management initiatives fail and how to get stakeholder buy-in, positioning Sandstone as the platform that removes adoption friction.

Nick Fleisher Aug 26, 2026

How Poor Legal Ops Performance Holds Your Legal Team Back

The warning signs of underperforming legal ops are hiding in plain sight. Here's how Sandstone's unified intake, AI-powered triage, and analytics close the gap.

Nick Fleisher Aug 19, 2026

ChatGPT for Contract Review: 5 Risks For Legal Teams

Five risks in-house legal teams should understand before making ChatGPT a standard part of their contract review process.

Jessica Nguyen Aug 17, 2026

How Legal Operations Efficiency Gaps Are Costing Your Team

Common legal operations efficiency gaps — scattered intake, manual triage, siloed data — drive hidden costs and slow the business. Sandstone's unified AI platform closes them.

Jarryd Strydom Aug 12, 20268 min read

Build vs. Buy Legal AI: What In-House Teams Should Know (2026 Guide)

Help in-house legal teams weigh build vs. buy AI, then position Sandstone as the faster, lower-risk option — integration, institutional knowledge, and workflow orchestration out of the box.

Nick Fleisher Jul 30, 2026

AI Agents for Legal: What They Do for In-House Legal Teams in 2026

A guide to AI agents for in-house legal: how they work, where they add value, and how to evaluate them with Sandstone as the playbook-driven solution for agentic AI.

Jarryd Strydom Jul 28, 2026

How to Centralize Legal Requests And Stop Losing Them

How in-house legal teams can centralize scattered requests into a unified intake system with structured routing — eliminating lost requests and manual triage with Sandstone's AI-powered platform.

Jarryd Strydom Jul 22, 2026

10 KPIs Every In-House Legal Team Should Be Tracking

Ten essential legal department KPIs for in-house teams — from contract cycle time to risk metrics — and how to start tracking them consistently.

Jessica Nguyen Jul 14, 2026

How To Build An Efficient Legal Capacity Planning Strategy

Help in-house legal teams build a legal capacity planning strategy that prevents burnout, justifies headcount, and positions Sandstone as the solution for workload visibility and automation

Jarryd Strydom Jul 8, 2026

Legal Workflow Design

Point Solutions vs. a Holistic Platform for Legal Ops

Why point solutions create hidden costs for in-house legal teams — and how Sandstone's vertical AI platform consolidates intake, knowledge orchestration, and legal operations.

Jarryd Strydom Jun 29, 2026