Lawyers are quietly becoming builders

The man who leads Claude for Legal built his own tools first. You can too — and you don’t need to write code.

Bob Ambrogi, the veteran legal tech journalist, just interviewed Mark Pike on his LawNext podcast. Pike is the associate general counsel at Anthropic and the product lead for Claude for Legal, the big legal push the company launched in May.

What stuck with me wasn’t the product news. It was how Pike got there. He came up through Facebook and Slack, and h…