Anthropic announces 12 Claude plugins for the legal sector, including a "commercial counsel" tool for reviewing vendor agreements and a bar exam study tool (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/anthropic-expands-push-into-legal-industry-with-new-ai-tools"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260512/i36.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260512/p36#a260512p36" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Rachel Metz / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/anthropic-expands-push-into-legal-industry-with-new-ai-tools">Anthropic announces 12 Claude plugins for the legal sector, including a &ldquo;commercial counsel&rdquo; tool for reviewing vendor agreements and a bar exam study tool</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Anthropic PBC is taking steps to help legal professionals carry out more tasks using its Claude chatbot &hellip; </p>