Legal Specialist, Law Enforcement

Anthropic • San Francisco, NY

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is seeking a hands-on Legal Specialist to join its Litigation, Regulatory & Policy team. The role owns and operates the company’s response to law enforcement and government requests for user data, from intake and validation through data production and closeout. It also supports civil third-party subpoenas, cross-border legal process, litigation, regulatory matters, and broader legal operations. The position works closely with in-house and outside counsel and partners across Trust and Safety, Security, Privacy, and Engineering. The successful candidate will help maintain and improve the response process, its tooling, reporting, and transparency reporting while monitoring legal developments affecting government access to user data.

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The company describes itself as a collaborative, quickly growing team and a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its current hybrid policy expects staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more. Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office space for collaboration.

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 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 deciding what to escalate and maintaining rigorous tracking.
• Comfort operating and improving legal-process tooling such as trackers, spreadsheets, forms, aliases, and simple automations, with 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 experience.
• Education or experience in a field relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of experience in legal operations, business or 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 legal challenges and opportunities presented by emerging technologies.
• Experience building or scaling a law enforcement response process.
• Experience managing legal intake processes 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, including subpoenas, court orders, search warrants, preservation letters, and emergency disclosure requests.
• Prepare and execute data productions, including scoping, data retrieval, coordination with counsel, and 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 resides across Anthropic product surfaces and operate 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 involving user accounts, investigations, or safety escalations.
• Coordinate with outside counsel, alongside in-house counsel, on objections, challenges, and narrowing requests.
• Produce recurring reporting 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 impact.
• Support litigation and regulatory matters and take on other work as needed to support the legal team's objectives.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Flexible working hours.
• Office space for collaborating with colleagues.
• Visa sponsorship may be available, with reasonable efforts to obtain a visa and assistance from an immigration lawyer.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level