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Sam Oliver

I'm a product marketing leader with 13+ years spanning behavioural security, IT ops, biotech, and now agentic AI. I lead product marketing at Flank, working across product, sales, and CS to help legal teams see real impact from autonomous AI agents.

Beyond hype: why ROI will define Legal AI in 2026

Beyond hype: why ROI will define Legal AI in 2026

For the past few years, the legal industry has been in a phase of exploration. We have seen firms and in-house teams adopting Generative AI tools largely for the novelty factor – testing the waters to see what is possible. But as we look toward 2026, the atmosphere is shifting. The

Making mashed potato: why AI will save lawyers from boredom, not their jobs

Making mashed potato: why AI will save lawyers from boredom, not their jobs

There is a pervasive fear that autonomous AI replaces the need for legal expertise. The reality is the opposite: it clarifies the value of true expertise by stripping away the drudgery.

How to scale legal operations without hiring a single lawyer in 2026

How to scale legal operations without hiring a single lawyer in 2026

For decades, the economic model of the in-house legal team has been broken. It was a linear equation, but not any more.

Silence in the inbox: the rise of 'invisible' autonomous agents

Silence in the inbox: the rise of 'invisible' autonomous agents

The ultimate measure of success for a legal AI deployment in 2026 is not how many lawyers are logging into a tool. It is whether the business users even know the tool exists.

Why reasoning models are the missing link for transforming legal

Why reasoning models are the missing link for transforming legal

For the last two years, lawyers have been told that AI is "almost there". Yet, in private, the reality has been different.

The Great Decoupling: how 2025 changed the legal AI paradigm

The Great Decoupling: how 2025 changed the legal AI paradigm

If 2024 was the “Year of the Pilot”, a time of cautious experimentation, proof-of-concept projects, and learning what works, then 2025 marked the beginning of the shift.

Introducing Flank: agentic legal AI that resolves legal requests autonomously

Introducing Flank: agentic legal AI that resolves legal requests autonomously

Flank is the first enterprise-ready agentic system built for legal work. Instead of assisting lawyers; it handles the work itself: reviewing, drafting, redlining, triaging, and filing across the systems your team already uses such as Outlook, Teams, Jira, and Salesforce.