Legal Specialist, Law Enforcement

The role

This person will own the end-to-end response to law enforcement and government requests for user data. They will also support legal operations, litigation, regulatory, and policy team objectives.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end response to law enforcement and government requests for user data
• Prepare and execute data productions
• Handle foreign and cross-border process including MLATs and letters rogatory
• Handle civil third-party subpoenas and preservation demands
• Maintain expertise in user data locations and operate internal data retrieval tooling
• Run and improve the law enforcement response process and tooling
• Partner with Trust and Safety, Security, Privacy, and Engineering
• Coordinate with outside counsel on objections, challenges, and narrowing
• Produce recurring reporting on request volume and queue health
• Monitor legal developments in government access to user data

Required 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
• Working knowledge of the legal framework for law enforcement access to user data, including the Stored Communications Act and MLATs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to exercise good judgment and maintain discretion and confidentiality
• Strong project management skills
• Experience owning an intake, queue, or docketing process end to end
• Comfort operating and improving legal process tooling
• Proactive, solutions-oriented approach to process improvements
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Field of study relevant to the role

Nice to have

• 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
• Experience building or scaling a law enforcement response process
• Experience managing legal intake process within a growing company
• Ability to think critically and creatively
• Familiarity with legal project management software such as Asana, Trello, or Jira

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas, though not for every role or candidate

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Their mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.