How Agentic AI Is Redefining the Role of the Product Counsel

For product lawyers, the agentic era is changing more than the tools; it is changing how products are built, how risks surface, and how legal advice reaches the business. And who better to explore that shift than the creator of Claude for Legal and associate general counsel at Anthropic, Mark Pike.

Drawing on his experience at Slack and Anthropic, Pike offers a firsthand look at what product counseling requires when legal teams are advising not just on AI, but alongside it. Irene and Mark explore how lawyers can build trust with product and engineering teams, why technical curiosity matters, and how tools like Claude for Legal are reshaping the way legal guidance is created, delivered, and scaled. The conversation also points to a broader question for the profession: whether AI will reduce legal work or expand the universe of legal questions that teams are able to see and address.

Learn more about the Stanford Law School AI Initiative

Irene Liu, Executive Director of the Stanford Law School AI Initiative

Connect with Mark Pike

Explore Claude for Legal on GitHub

Watch Mark's Presentation at Stanford

Chapters:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:01:15) How Product Counseling Has Changed

(00:03:17) From Pat Signals to AI Agents

(00:04:38) Product Counseling in the Agentic Era

(00:06:41) The Product Lawyer as Miniature GC

(00:08:09) Getting Closer to the Work