Strategic direction for legal leaders
SANDSTORM
Bringing clarity for law firms and legal departments in a time of disruption
01 — The moment
Is the legal profession caught in a sandstorm?
Artificial intelligence is not approaching — it is already here. Changing how legal work is done, who does it, what it costs, and what clients will pay for.
The challenge is actually seeing what is in the future and moving towards it.
02 — Strategic clarity
A clear approach for your situation.
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Understand
Understand the disruption that AI brings to your business model, firm structure, revenue types, and the way your teams work.
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Translate
Translate uncertainty into a firm-specific or department-specific approach. Technology, pricing, ownership, structure, profits.
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Navigate
Navigate through a fast-moving market without losing sight of where your firm is going. Stay on course in a rapidly developing landscape.
03 — The intelligence
Challenge and think.
Sandstorm is supported by a thinktank of industry experts who follow the latest developments in AI, legal services, and professional management. The counsel you receive is continuously tested against the frontier.
Frans Post
Founder, Sandstorm
Frans implemented strategy and change as a CFO/COO in global law firms including Clifford Chance, Olswang, Mourant, and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. Thirty years' experience in firms in Europe, US and UK. Frans has been a partner at legal consultancy Venturis. He now helps firms deal with the impact of AI on their business model. A critical mind, a broad outlook and a different view on how law firms actually work on the business side.
04 — Perspective
Judgment makes the difference.
Sandstorm works together with the firm's senior teams on the important questions: how to read the market developments, understand the impact on the business model, adapt and focus the firm (or legal function), update revenue and pricing models and how to work through the change.
Law firms
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In-house teams
05 — Focus
How will the law firm of the future look? What is the model?
The question is what a law firm looks like five years from now. Firms are already moving, but the real test is whether they are prepared to rethink the business model itself. As work once billed by the hour is taken over by AI, value will be created elsewhere — in judgment, outcomes, relationships, and new forms of service. Pricing must change with it. So must the thinking. That's where Sandstorm can help.
06 — How we work
Your firm's questions. Our views and experience. Into the future.
Our work is discreet, rigorous, and designed to leave leadership teams with a practical direction — not a deck that gathers dust.
Three modes of engagement, each designed to move thinking forward.
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Keynote
The talk that reframes the conversation for partnership meetings, retreats, and conferences.
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Workshop
A way to get from awareness to alignment: surfacing the real questions and addressing them.
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Advisory
An independent thinker in the room for managing partners, boards, and general counsel.
07 — Start here
Let’s talk.
For a confidential conversation about your firm, get in touch.
Sandstorm — strategic advice for law firms and legal departments.