Litigation Legal Specialist

We are looking for a hands-on Legal Specialist (Litigation/Regulatory) to join our Legal team at Anthropic. In this role, you will be a key player in building out our legal function and supporting our efforts to safeguard our intellectual property while navigating the intricate regulatory landscape of the AI industry. The successful candidate will be a strong team player, able to build positive relationships with colleagues, and work collaboratively towards shared goals.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and for society as a whole. Our interdisciplinary team has experience across ML, physics, policy, business and product.

• Draft and manage Cease and Desist (C&D) letters to protect our company's intellectual property and reputation 
• Handle data claims and data demands, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, and timely responses to requests 
• Assist with research, document preparation, and other tasks as required by the legal team 
• Collaborate with legal counsel to develop and implement effective legal strategies 
• Monitor and analyze legal trends and developments relevant to our industry 
• Maintain accurate records and documentation related to legal matters 
• Stretch beyond core responsibilities as needed to support the legal team's objectives

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in legal operations, business/operations manager, or paralegal role in a corporate legal department or similar experience
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to effectively interact with individuals 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
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Proactive and solutions-oriented approach to identifying, recommending, and implementing process improvements within the legal department
• Comprehensive knowledge of e-discovery systems including Everlaw, Relativity, Exclipse, and Nextpoint
• Experience using docket search databases (PACER, LexisNexis, Pohlman, Westlaw) etc.

• Genuine interest in technology development and AI, with a desire to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment
• Minimum of 2+ years of experience working in a high-growth tech company, with exposure to the unique legal challenges and opportunities presented by emerging technologies
• Demonstrated ability to think critically and creatively problem-solve, adapting to new challenges and finding innovative 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 technologies to streamline legal processes

• The expected salary for this position is $170k USD.

Logistics

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in our office at least 75% of the time.

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

US visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate; operations roles are especially difficult to support. But if we make you an offer, we will make every effort to get you into the United States, 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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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.

Compensation and Benefits*

Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.

Equity - On top of this position's salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.

US Benefits -  The following benefits are for our US-based employees:

- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.

- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.

- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.

- 22 weeks of paid parental leave.

- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!

- Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.

- Fertility benefits via Carrot.

- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.

- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.

UK Benefits -  The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:

- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.

- Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.

- Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).

- 22 weeks of paid parental leave.

- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!

- Health cash plan.

- Life insurance and income protection.

- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.

* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.

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. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.

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 based 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.