# Legal Specialist, Law Enforcement

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $170k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Legal Operations, Law Enforcement Requests, Stored Communications Act, Mlats, Data Retrieval, Legal Intake, Project Management, Process Improvement, Spreadsheets, Simple Automations, Asana, Trello, Jira
**Posted:** 2026-08-28

> Handles end-to-end law enforcement and government requests for user data, including cross-border process, productions, escalations, and reporting. Requires in-house legal operations or paralegal experience, strong judgment, project management skills, and familiarity with relevant legal frameworks.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end responses to law enforcement and government requests for user data, including subpoenas, court orders, search warrants, preservation letters, and emergency disclosure requests from domestic and foreign authorities.
- Prepare and execute data productions by scoping requests, retrieving data, coordinating with counsel, and completing production.
- Handle foreign and cross-border process, including MLATs and letters rogatory, and manage jurisdictional escalations.
- Handle civil third-party subpoenas and preservation demands.
- Maintain expertise in the location of user data across product surfaces and operate internal data-retrieval tooling.
- Run and improve law enforcement response processes and tooling.
- Partner with Trust and Safety, Security, Privacy, and Engineering on account requests, investigations, and safety escalations.
- Coordinate with outside counsel and in-house counsel on objections, challenges, and narrowing requests.
- Produce recurring reports on request volume, deadlines, and queue health, and support transparency reporting on government requests.
- Monitor legal developments concerning government access to user data and advise on operational impact.
- Support litigation and regulatory matters and other legal-team objectives as needed.

## Requirements
- Experience in legal operations, business or operations management, paralegal work, or a similar in-house legal role.
- Direct 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 cross-border requests such as MLATs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Sound judgment and discretion when handling sensitive, confidential legal matters under time pressure.
- Strong project management skills, including prioritization, deadline management, and multitasking.
- Experience owning an intake, queue, or docketing process end to end, including escalation decisions and rigorous tracking.
- Comfort operating and improving legal-process tooling such as trackers, spreadsheets, forms, aliases, and simple automations.
- Proactive, solutions-oriented approach to implementing process improvements.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

## Nice-to-haves
- 5+ years of experience in legal operations, business or operations management, or an in-house paralegal role.
- 2+ years of experience at a high-growth technology company.
- Experience building or scaling a law enforcement response process.
- Experience managing legal intake at a growing company.
- Critical and creative thinking with practical problem-solving skills.
- Familiarity with Asana, Trello, or Jira.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $170,000–$220,000 USD.

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