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Law firm innovation leaders say Anthropic won't negotiate privacy terms without a minimum spend
Law firm innovation leaders told Bloomberg Law that Anthropic won't negotiate key privacy and data security contract terms for Claude unless firms commit to a minimum spend, and that firms are largely on their own for training, Bloomberg Law reported on October 22, 2026. The account comes from an August fireside chat at a convention in Nashville with Robert Mahari, Anthropic's new head of Claude for Legal, described by five attendees.
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Key points
- An ILTA survey found 44% of firms using or exploring Claude, but only 7% of those had fully rolled it out to attorneys.Bloomberg Law
- One attendee objected that Anthropic offers no zero data retention for one of its models.Bloomberg Law
- Anthropic said it doesn't discuss commercial terms and doesn't train on enterprise customer data by default.Bloomberg Law
- Ogletree Deakins, piloting Claude since February, called it one of the firm's most successful deployments.Bloomberg Law
- Some leaders said OpenAI has closed the gap with Claude, easing pressure to buy it.Bloomberg Law