Legal Specialist, Law Enforcement

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

We are looking for a hands-on Legal Specialist (Law Enforcement) to join our Litigation, Regulatory & Policy team at Anthropic. In this role, you will be a key player in building out our legal function and running how Anthropic responds to law enforcement and government requests for user data, while navigating the intricate regulatory landscape of the AI industry. We expect this role to flex beyond the law enforcement queue into legal operations to support the broader litigation, regulatory, and policy team. The successful candidate will be a strong team player, able to build positive relationships with colleagues and work collaboratively toward shared goals.

Key responsibilities

Own the end-to-end response to law enforcement and government requests for user data, from intake and validation through production and closeout, including subpoenas, court orders, search warrants, preservation letters, and emergency disclosure requests from domestic and foreign authorities

Prepare and execute data productions: scoping, data retrieval, coordination with counsel, and eventual production

Handle foreign and cross-border process, including MLATs and letters rogatory, and manage escalations across jurisdictions

Handle civil third-party subpoenas and preservation demands

Maintain expertise in where user data lives across Anthropic's product surfaces and operate the internal data retrieval tooling

Run and improve the law enforcement response process and tooling

Partner with Trust and Safety, Security, Privacy, and Engineering on requests that touch user accounts, investigations, or safety escalations

Coordinate with outside counsel, alongside in-house counsel, on objections, challenges, and narrowing

Produce recurring reporting on request volume, deadlines, and queue health, and support Anthropic's periodic transparency reporting on government requests

Monitor legal developments in government access to user data and advise the team on their operational impact

Support litigation and regulatory matters and stretch beyond core responsibilities as needed to support the legal team's objectives

Minimum qualifications

Experience in a legal operations, business/operations manager, or paralegal role in an in-house legal department, or similar experience

Direct, front-line experience handling law enforcement or government requests for user data, including subpoenas, court orders, warrants, preservation letters, and emergency disclosure requests

Working knowledge of the legal framework for law enforcement access to user data, including the Stored Communications Act and the mechanics of foreign and cross-border requests such as MLATs

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with colleagues at all levels of the organization

Demonstrated ability to exercise good judgment and maintain the highest standards of discretion and confidentiality when handling sensitive legal matters, including under time pressure

Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and manage multiple projects simultaneously

Experience owning an intake, queue, or docketing process end to end,  including deciding what gets escalated and maintaining rigorous tracking

Comfort operating and improving the tooling a legal process runs on (trackers, spreadsheets, forms, aliases, and simple automations), with a willingness to make changes directly rather than route every change to someone else

A proactive, solutions-oriented approach to identifying, recommending, and implementing process improvements within the legal department

Preferred qualifications

5+ years of experience in legal operations, business/operations management, or a paralegal role in an in-house legal department

2+ years of experience at a high-growth technology company, with exposure to the legal challenges and opportunities presented by emerging technologies

Experience building or scaling a law enforcement response process

Experience managing legal intake process within a growing company

Demonstrated ability to think critically and creatively, adapting to new challenges and finding practical solutions to complex legal issues

Familiarity with legal project management software such as Asana, Trello, or Jira, and a willingness to learn and adopt new tools to streamline legal processes

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$170,000 — $220,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study:  A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:  We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates wil