Anthropic hires legal-tech founder to lead its push into law

Robert Mahari, a legal startup founder, has joined Anthropic as its first Head of Claude for Legal, a role focused on deploying and expanding Claude within the legal industry.

Why it matters: Legal is shaping up as one of the clearer high-value enterprise verticals for AI; a dedicated leadership hire signals Anthropic is investing in vertical go-to-market rather than treating legal as a generic use case. It follows other reported traction in the space, including the Pakistani judiciary case-resolution results already in the feed.