Anthropic Ships 20+ Legal MCP Connectors and 12 Practice-Area Plugins

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Anthropic's June updates add 20+ new legal MCP connectors and 12 practice-area plugins, expanding how law firms and in-house teams use Claude across research, contracts, discovery, matter management, and legal aid. It is one of the most concrete vertical agent-deployment pushes from a frontier lab to date, packaging domain tools as MCP connectors rather than bespoke integrations — a template for how labs may verticalize agent capabilities via the protocol layer.