Anthropic’s Claude for Word Targets Lawyers, Putting Fresh Pressure on Microsoft Copilot
Anthropic’s Claude is now available in beta for Microsoft Word, rolling out over the weekend as a sidebar tool. Users get AI-powered answers about their docs, can have text rewritten, and see all edits tracked by Word’s built-in system for easy approval or rejection. Legal contract review tops the example use cases on Anthropic’s help page. This release takes Anthropic further into the highly competitive enterprise AI space, specifically legal services. Law firms, feeling the heat to keep up, are changing their tune. McCarthy Tetrault partner Susan Wortzman told Reuters last month that where firms previously assured clients they weren’t touching generative AI, “now they are saying you must use it.”