Legal Specialist, Law Enforcement

About Anthropic

Anthropics 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 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 Anthropics 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 Anthropics 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 teams 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 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 roles On Target Earnings (OTE) range meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$170000 - $220000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelors 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 arent 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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you some cases we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money fees or banking information before your first day. If youre ever unsure about a communication dont click any linksvisit

How were 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. Were 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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