In-house lawyers aim to shed the grind, not the people

Sandstone has closed a $30 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, just six months after a Sequoia-led $10 million seed round, to build AI-powered workflow and relationship management tools for in-house legal departments at small and mid-sized businesses. Co-founder and chief operating officer Jarryd Strydom said the platform helps legal teams triage incoming […]

Sandstone's Series A was led by Lightspeed Partners, with participation from Sequoia.

Incumbents are upgrading products, while emphasising authoritative content and expertise that legal teams can trust

Eudia has announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI, which involves ‘co-building’ for the legal and acquisition teams in the Department of War (DoW) and other ...

Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that's specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation history, and complex documents to help legal teams handle tasks like reviewing contracts. "Instead of relying on general AI models to interpret commands, the agent follows structured workflows shaped by real legal practice, managing clearly defined, repeatable tasks like reviewing contracts clause by clause against a playbook," explains Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Product Group. The Legal Agent can work with existing documents that have tracked changes, and analyz … Read the full story at The Verge.

See how the Claude legal plugin helps in-house legal teams with contract review, compliance scanning, due diligence, obligations tracking, and drafting.