About this role
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 Communicati