Anthropic enters legal as orchestration infrastructure

LawNext reports that Anthropic released more than 20 MCP connectors and 12 legal practice-area plugins for Claude, spanning Ironclad, DocuSign, iManage, NetDocuments, Relativity, Everlaw, Datasite, Harvey and CoCounsel Legal. The release also extends Claude across Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint with context carried between applications. The foundation-model layer is now reaching directly into the legal application stack, forcing legal tech vendors and firms to decide where orchestration, data control and user experience should live.