Legal Specialist, Law Enforcement

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is seeking a hands-on Legal Specialist to join its Litigation, Regulatory & Policy team. The role will build and operate the company’s response to law enforcement and government requests for user data while navigating the regulatory landscape of the AI industry. It may also extend into legal operations supporting the broader litigation, regulatory, and policy team. The successful candidate will collaborate effectively and build positive working relationships across the organization. The role owns the end-to-end handling of government and law enforcement data requests, including intake, validation, data retrieval, production, and closeout. It also manages civil third-party demands, foreign and cross-border legal process, internal tooling and process improvements, coordination with internal teams and counsel, recurring reporting, and support for litigation and regulatory matters.

Requirements

Experience in legal operations, business or operations management, or a 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 foreign and cross-border requests such as MLATs.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with colleagues at all organizational levels.
Good judgment and the highest standards of discretion and confidentiality when handling sensitive legal matters, including under time pressure.
Strong project management skills, including prioritizing tasks, meeting deadlines, and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
Experience owning an intake, queue, or docketing process end to end, including escalation decisions and rigorous tracking.
Comfort operating and improving process tooling such as trackers, spreadsheets, forms, aliases, and simple automations, and willingness to make changes directly.
A proactive, solutions-oriented approach to identifying, recommending, and implementing legal department process improvements.
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
A field of study relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice To Haves

5 or more years of experience in legal operations, business or operations management, or a paralegal role in an in-house legal department.
2 or more years of experience at a high-growth technology company, with exposure to legal challenges and opportunities presented by emerging technologies.
Experience building or scaling a law enforcement response process.
Experience managing a legal intake process within a growing company.
Ability to think critically and creatively, adapt to new challenges, and find practical solutions to complex legal issues.
Familiarity with legal project management software such as Asana, Trello, or Jira, and willingness to learn and adopt new tools.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end responses to domestic and foreign law enforcement and government requests for user data, from intake and validation through production and closeout.
Prepare and execute data productions, including scoping, data retrieval, coordination with counsel, and production.
Handle foreign and cross-border legal 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 resides across Anthropic product surfaces and operate internal data retrieval tooling.
Run and improve the law enforcement response process and its tooling.
Partner with Trust and Safety, Security, Privacy, and Engineering on requests involving user accounts, investigations, or safety escalations.
Coordinate with outside counsel and in-house counsel on objections, challenges, and narrowing requests.
Produce recurring reports on request volume, deadlines, and queue health, and support periodic transparency reporting on government requests.
Monitor legal developments in government access to user data and advise the team on operational impacts.
Support litigation and regulatory matters and other legal-team objectives as needed.