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https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-expands-claudes-ai-tools-law-firms-lawyers-2026-05-12/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-exp

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-expands-claudes-ai-tools-law-firms-lawyers-2026-05-12/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-expands-c... FTA >WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Tuesday released an expanded suite of features for lawyers using its Claude AI assistant, including tools for specialized legal topics and access within Claude to other legal research and AI products.

ileonichwiesz 5mo ago
Lawyers run the US, I don’t think anything that reduces the country’s dependence on them has any chance of widespread adoption.
mullingitover 5mo ago
I stand by my prediction that when AI comes for the lawyers' jobs, that's when suddenly we'll have the Butlerian Jihad.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 5mo ago
  If there were a particular subset of people that were the absolute least likely to ever revolt against anything it could be no one other than the lawyers. They've trained their entire careers to play by rules so esoteric that people like us need to hire them just to interact with those rules safely.
  - mullingitover 5mo ago
    They won’t do anything so gauche as a rebellion, they’ll just rule it unconstitutional and leave it to law enforcement to handle the details.
- EvanAnderson 5mo ago
  Not lawyers-- judges. Judges, in my experience, don't take kindly to anything or anyone infringing on their power. Edit: I've met a ton of attorneys who are bullish on LLMs preparing work for them (kinda like robo-paralegals, albeit ones apt to spout bullshit). Judges, being human (and lazy by dint of evolution), would probably lean on LLM-based analysis too. I cannot imagine they'd ever stand by and let decisions be made by a non-judge.
  - CamperBob2 5mo ago
    That already happens, in the form of arbitration. In fact, I'll bet someone makes a bundle selling AI arbitration services that do just that. Got a beef with BigCo? What could be more fair than letting HAL settle the matter? If I had the sense God gave a gerbil, I'd already have Claude writing up a patent application on this. (Edit, too late: https://www.adr.org/ai-arbitrator/ https://www.adr.org/ai-arbitrator/ )
- Muromec 5mo ago
  You can't exactly start the jihad being a lawyer.
  - miki123211 5mo ago
    Big tech went from cool corporations to enemies of the people after they made journalists less relevant. The journalists fought back. I can definitely imagine the same happening with AI and lawyers, except that lawyers are far, far more powerful.

ileonichwiesz 5mo ago

Lawyers run the US, I don’t think anything that reduces the country’s dependence on them has any chance of widespread adoption.

mullingitover 5mo ago

I stand by my prediction that when AI comes for the lawyers' jobs, that's when suddenly we'll have the Butlerian Jihad.

NoMoreNicksLeft 5mo ago
If there were a particular subset of people that were the absolute least likely to ever revolt against anything it could be no one other than the lawyers. They've trained their entire careers to play by rules so esoteric that people like us need to hire them just to interact with those rules safely.
- mullingitover 5mo ago
  They won’t do anything so gauche as a rebellion, they’ll just rule it unconstitutional and leave it to law enforcement to handle the details.
EvanAnderson 5mo ago
Not lawyers-- judges. Judges, in my experience, don't take kindly to anything or anyone infringing on their power. Edit: I've met a ton of attorneys who are bullish on LLMs preparing work for them (kinda like robo-paralegals, albeit ones apt to spout bullshit). Judges, being human (and lazy by dint of evolution), would probably lean on LLM-based analysis too. I cannot imagine they'd ever stand by and let decisions be made by a non-judge.
- CamperBob2 5mo ago
  That already happens, in the form of arbitration. In fact, I'll bet someone makes a bundle selling AI arbitration services that do just that. Got a beef with BigCo? What could be more fair than letting HAL settle the matter? If I had the sense God gave a gerbil, I'd already have Claude writing up a patent application on this. (Edit, too late: https://www.adr.org/ai-arbitrator/ https://www.adr.org/ai-arbitrator/ )
Muromec 5mo ago
You can't exactly start the jihad being a lawyer.
- miki123211 5mo ago
  Big tech went from cool corporations to enemies of the people after they made journalists less relevant. The journalists fought back. I can definitely imagine the same happening with AI and lawyers, except that lawyers are far, far more powerful.