Anthropic PBC announced a package of 12 new tools on Tuesday tailored to legal professionals to use with its Claude chatbot. The additions are intended for attorneys, law students and other participants in the legal sector.
Among the features unveiled is a commercial counsel utility aimed at helping with vendor agreement review. Anthropic also introduced a capability to assist with preparation for the bar exam. In addition to those functions, the company rolled out integrations that allow Claude to connect with software from DocuSign Inc. and Thomson Reuters Corp., and to interface with Harvey, a competing AI legal service.
The new legal tools will be available to paying clients through Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s AI agent designed for office tasks, and via third-party services built on top of Claude. Anthropic and OpenAI have emphasized expanding AI applications to cover a broader array of professional tasks across industries such as financial services and health care as part of efforts to attract more corporate customers.
Anthropic said lawyers began using Claude at higher rates than any profession other than software developers after a February release of a tool for Claude Cowork that automated some legal tasks, including contract reviewing and the drafting of legal briefings. Mark Pike, Anthropic’s associate general counsel, told the company that a webcast on using Claude for legal work drew participation from more than 20,000 legal professionals.
The February release has been linked by the company to a substantial market reaction, with the report noting that it contributed to a $1 trillion stock market decline. Anthropic is currently valued at $380 billion and has in recent discussions considered funding offers exceeding $900 billion. The company may go public this year.
The rollout positions Claude to serve a range of legal use cases from academic preparation to transactional contract review, and to connect with established e-signature and legal research platforms through the announced integrations. Access is limited to paying customers of Claude Cowork and to services built on Claude, underscoring a commercial distribution model for the new features.