Anthropic announced Tuesday that it is launching a host of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law firms. The new features expand Claude for Legal \u2014 the law-focused plug-in that launched earlier this year \u2014 offering users a new set of legal plug-ins and MCP connectors designed for specific areas of law.<\/p>\n
The new tools come amid hot competition in the legal AI space. In March, the AI law startup Harvey, which uses agentic AI to automate legal workflows, raised $200 million at a valuation of $11 billion. Last month, a rival startup, Legora, raised a $600 million Series D and launched a high-profile ad campaign featuring Jude Law. Legora offers similar services to Harvey \u2014 automated solutions built to simplify the often byzantine law processes that have traditionally involved entire teams of humans.<\/p>\n
Anthropic\u2019s new tools are designed to help law firms automate specific clerical functions \u2014 things like document search and review, case law resources, deposition prep, document drafting, and other related areas. The plug-ins \u2014 which represent a bundle of functions and automated tools \u2014 are designed to work across legal fields like commercial, privacy, corporate, employment, product, and AI governance, Anthropic says.<\/p>\n
Anthropic is also offering a number of model context protocol connectors. MCPs connect specific data sources and third-party systems to AI models, allowing the models to interact with them directly. In this case, the new MCP connectors integrate Claude into a variety of software applications that are already routinely used by law firms \u2014 applications for document management like Docusign and file search platforms like Box. Legal research sites like Thomson Reuters (which operates Westlaw) can also be connected.<\/p>\n
The new connectors and plug-ins are being made available to all paying Claude customers, the company said. The new features also build upon other plug-ins designed for the legal industry that the company launched in February.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe legal sector is facing mounting pressure to adopt AI, and the firms and in-house teams that move are pulling ahead fast,\u201d a spokesperson for the company said. \u201cClaude is making a deeper push into knowledge work, with the legal sector emerging as one of its most significant and fastest-growing industries.\u201d<\/p>\n
As AI companies have sought to court law firms, AI-related failures have caused real problems in court. Dozens of lawyers have been caught using AI to generate error-ridden legal documents, as has at least one major law firm. Last year, California issued a first-of-its-kind fine against an attorney who had used ChatGPT to draft an appeal riddled with fake quotes. Federal judges have also been caught using it to draft rulings, a trend that drew the scrutiny of congressional leaders last year. Meanwhile, AI-generated lawsuits are said to be clogging the arteries of justice \u2014 overwhelming courts with stacks of bizarrely argued legal \u201cslop.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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