Anthropic Releases Legal Plug-in Disrupts Legal-AI Market

Anthropic recently released a plug-in enabling its model to be used for legal work, triggering share-price falls at RELX, Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer and sparking industry debate. At the CLOC Europe summit, over 200 legal-operations leaders voiced mixed reactions—some welcomed increased competition while others stressed continued value in domain-specific tools for security and workflow integration. The development may shift procurement but not eliminate specialized legal AI.