{"id":153345,"date":"2026-08-27T15:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/153345\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:49:21","slug":"anthropics-general-counsel-announces-new-role-as-international-special-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/153345\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic&#8217;s general counsel announces new role as &#8216;international special envoy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/\" title=\"Home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/\" title=\"Read the Daily News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tAnthropic&#8217;s general counsel announces new\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Artificial Intelligence &amp; Robotics<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tAnthropic&#8217;s general counsel announces new role as &#8216;international special envoy&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/authors\/64780\/\" title=\"View this author&#039;s information\" style=\"color:{default_link_color};\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Robert<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dateline\">August 27, 2026, 9:49 am CDT<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shutterstock_Anthropic.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_Anthropic\" height=\"286\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anthropic\u2019s general counsel has announced that he is exiting his role to become the artificial intelligence company\u2019s \u201cinternational special envoy.\u201d (Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/guilherandgranges-france-march-06-2025-anthropic-2663445441\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shutterstock<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic\u2019s general counsel has announced that he is exiting his role to become the artificial intelligence company\u2019s \u201cinternational special envoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Bleich <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7497685609889595392\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced his job change<\/a> on LinkedIn, noting that he will now be working with governments around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decisions being made around AI policy right now, in capitals on every continent, will shape the development of this technology for decades,\u201d Bleich said in the post. \u201cThis role brings together the two halves of my career, law and diplomacy, and I could not be more excited and grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bleich joined Anthropic about a year ago and worked under chief legal officer Brian Israel. Among his previous roles, he was the U.S. ambassador to Australia under former President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>In his LinkedIn post, Bleich also congratulated Anthropic\u2019s associate general counsel Elena Leichty, who will be his successor. Leichty joined the AI company in July 2023, after working as the corporate legal counsel at Google for several years, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/corpcounsel\/2026\/08\/25\/anthropic-names-successor-to-general-counsel-taking-on-new-role-as-international-special-envoy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law.com<\/a>, which has additional coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/contact?referrer=https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/anthropics-gc-announces-new-role-as-international-special-envoy\" class=\"feedback-cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    Write a letter to the editor, share a story tip or update, or report an error.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home Daily News Anthropic&#8217;s general counsel announces new\u2026 Artificial Intelligence &amp; Robotics Anthropic&#8217;s general counsel announces new role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5190,53,5203,5198,2105,1254,74730,597,2013,31474,2594,5191,134],"class_list":["post-153345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-aba-journal","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence-robotics","tag-career-practice","tag-careers","tag-federal-government","tag-global-initiatives","tag-government","tag-in-house-counsel","tag-international-law","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}