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The AI legal services industry is heating up. Anthropic is getting in on the action.

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Anthropic announced Tuesday that it is launching a host of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law firms. The new features expand Claude for Legal — the law-focused offering that launched earlier this year — offering users a new set of legal plugins and MCP connectors designed for specific areas of law.

The new tools come amid hot competition in the legal AI space. In March, the AI law startup Harvey, which uses agentic AI to automate legal workflows, raised $200 million at a valuation of $11 billion. Last month, a rival startup, Legora, raised a $600 million series D, and launched a high-profile ad campaign featuring Jude Law. Legora offers similar services to Harvey — automated solutions built to simplify the often byzantine law processes that have traditionally involved entire teams of humans.

Anthropic’s new tools are designed to help law firms automate specific clerical functions...

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