Legal Specialist, Law Enforcement

Prof H Lab; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a hands-on Legal Specialist (Law Enforcement) to lead end-to-end responses to government data requests. You will work with our Litigation, Regulatory & Policy team to navigate domestic and cross-border investigations and develop operational processes.

You will partner with Trust & Safety, Security, Privacy, and Engineering to address requests that touch user data, while monitoring regulatory developments and contributing to transparency reporting.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 5+ years in legal operations, business/operations, or paralegal role in-house.
• Experience handling law enforcement or government data requests.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end responses to law enforcement/government data requests.
• Prepare and execute data productions with counsel coordination.
• Manage cross-border requests (MLATs) and related escalations.
• Maintain knowledge of where user data lives and related tooling.
• Collaborate with Trust & Safety, Security, Privacy, and Engineering on relevant requests.
• Produce reporting on request volume and deadlines.

Skills

Legal operations

Law enforcement data requests

Project management

Regulatory knowledge

Collaboration with cross-functional

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Asana

Trello

Jira

Job description

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

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 within the legal department

Preferred qualifications

5+ years of experience in legal operations, business/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 the legal challenges and opportunities presented by emerging technologies

Experience building or scaling a law enforcement response process

Experience managing legal intake process within a growing company

Demonstrated ability to think critically and creatively, adapting to new challenges and finding practical solutions to complex legal issues

Familiarity with legal project management software such as Asana, Trello, or Jira, and a willingness to learn and adopt new tools to streamline legal processes

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

$1 - $2 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.

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