By Jeffrey R. Smith
Publication Date: 2026-02-03 16:53:00
The responsibility for accuracy lies with humans, says the developer
According to The Guardian, Anthropic’s legal tool is marketed as an assistant that can review contracts, flag important clauses, organize pertinent documents and create standardized drafts for lawyers to review. The company has stated that any analysis must continue to be reviewed by qualified legal experts, reiterating that responsibility for decisions remains with the human lawyer.
Still, the underlying skills—reading complex documents at scale, extracting key information, and producing structured summaries or drafts—are very similar to the work done every day in human resources, labor relations, and compliance. In many large Canadian organizations, employment contracts, policy documents, grievance files and investigation reports share the same characteristics as the legal documents that Anthropic’s system is designed to process.
Morgan Stanley analysts have described…
