Anthropic has hired Robert Mahari to be its first official ‘Head of Claude for Legal’. He’s a Fellow of Stanford’s CodeX legal tech group and recently finished a Doctorate in legal AI at MIT. He also has his own small legal AI startup, Akiva.
He joins Mark Pike as part of the team developing Claude for Legal. And as you know, Pike, an Associate General Counsel and product lead for ‘Claude for the legal industry’, has been instrumental in getting things up and running for the legal vertical at the LLM giant.
The move comes as rival OpenAI gets closer to revealing what its legal offering will look like, following its recent hire of Ironclad founder, Jason Boehmig.
The new hire underlines Anthropic’s intention to build out its talent base for Claude for Legal, a step that is certainly needed if it’s going to scale. After all, one cannot easily service the vast market that is the legal world with just a handful of staff. AL would assume that more hires are to follow. But, we shall see.
In a statement on social media, Mahari said:
