Claude for Legal

#1

Post by Einenlum » Thu, May 14, 2026, 9:05 PM UTC

Re: Claude for Legal

#2

Post by vb-8448 » Thu, May 14, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

I guess at some point we will have lawyers, attorneys and judges using this stuff ... at the point lawyers will become kinda "seo"/"copywriter" experts on how to better trick the others LLM.

Re: Claude for Legal

#3

Post by Shank » Thu, May 14, 2026, 9:52 PM UTC

It seems like they ripped out Lexis, which is probably one of the most important tools for lawyers: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/pull/5.

Re: Claude for Legal

#4

Post by ares623 » Thu, May 14, 2026, 9:57 PM UTC

Does anyone find it weird that Anthropic's Github org is `anthropics` (with an 's') and the `anthropic` username is owned by some random dude in Australia? Imagine the shenanigans someone can achieve with that user.

Re: Claude for Legal

#5

Post by forshaper » Thu, May 14, 2026, 9:58 PM UTC

vb-8448 wrote: post #2

I guess at some point we will have lawyers, attorneys and judges using this stuff ... at the point lawyers will become kinda "seo"/"copywriter" experts on how to better trick the others LLM.

Almost makes me want to get a law degree.

Re: Claude for Legal

#6

Post by pawelkomarnicki » Thu, May 14, 2026, 9:58 PM UTC

It will be hilarious to see this one play out because ChatGPT and Perplexity already do wonders for small-claim issues like tenancy laws, various personal letters, etc.

Re: Claude for Legal

#7

Post by droidjj » Thu, May 14, 2026, 9:59 PM UTC

As a lawyer, I'm excited about this, but there are two roadblocks that I'm not sure how Anthropic will navigate:

(1) For non-lawyers who use these skills/connectors/whatchamacallits to try to get legal advice, their communications are not protected by attorney-client privilege. This will absolutely bite some people in the ass.

(2) If a lawyer uses this with confidential client information (which, to the uninitiated, doesn't just mean SSNs and bank account numbers, but "all information relating to the representation of a client") and forgets to toggle off "Help improve Claude" in their settings, they have possibly (maybe even likely) committed malpractice.[1]

[1] https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/p...

Re: Claude for Legal

#8

Post by OkWing99 » Thu, May 14, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

Anthropics New Playbook:

`/loop 2days /create-new-{insert-industry}-md-files`

This is only for PR. No one checks what's in those docs, or if these are real, valid or ethical. The goal here is for all news outlets to pick them up. You're not the audience.

Given the amount of free PR they can get from some AI-generated .md files, I'd probably do the same if I was on their boat.

Right now, I don't think any other AI company generates as much as slop as Anthropic does.

Re: Claude for Legal

#9

Post by dawie » Thu, May 14, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

ares623 wrote: post #4

Does anyone find it weird that Anthropic's Github org is `anthropics` (with an 's') and the `anthropic` username is owned by some random dude in Australia? Imagine the shenanigans someone can achieve with that user.

It made me double check if it was a fake repo.

Re: Claude for Legal

#10

Post by unstyledcontent » Thu, May 14, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

Just remember that your AI chat history is not protected like attorney client privilege and can be used as evidence against you in court. If you talk to a lawyer and they use AI, those chats are privileged.