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 w …