Anthropic is in a legal fight for its very existence. In a code red moment, Anthropic hired 2 new law firms and 13 new trial attorneys to defend the company in 2 copyright lawsuits.
The more dire situation is the class action of book authors filed by Bartz. After Judge Alsup certified a class of copyrighted books that could total over 1 million, Anthropic immediately hired prominent trial attorney Daralyn Durie and 6 other attorneys from MoFo, adding to the 3 law firms that already represent Anthropic in that lawsuit.
One of those law firms is Arnold & Porter, which today has added another tech litigator from their LA office, Ryan M. Nishimito, to help defend Anthropic at trial.
We ran a Monte Carlo simulation of possible jury awards using ChatGPT. It looks grim for Anthropic:
- Mean expected award: ~$34.1 billion
- Probability > $1B: 95.31%
- Probability > $10B: 64.28%
- Probability > $50B: 22.29%
- Probability ≥ $100B: 9.68%
