Anthropic just rolled out Claude for Legal

Seth Chandler: “Anthropic just rolled out Claude for Legal, and even if you’re buried taking, grading or just having recurrent nightmares about exams, this post deserves ten minutes. At least three things matter for the academy: a law-student plugin with a summa cum laude portfolio of skills; a free CourtListener connector that does traditional legal research and more while quietly routing around the Westlaw/Lexis duopoly; and a legal-clinic plugin that turns supervisory pedagogy into configuration and could bend the cost curve of clinical and legal-aid work. There is much more and none of it is finished — but the trajectory is unmistakable. Access-to-justice, clinical economics, and how and to whom we teach law itself are all about to look different faster than we can imagine. This is only the beginning. It was inevitable. Claude has entered the legal tech market big time. It’s a huge development. In this blog post I am just going to alert readers to what has happened and show a few examples. But probing all the capabilities of Claude for Legal is going to span a number of posts that I’ll try to get out over the next week or two…”