Anthropic and Perplexity have officially launched agentic legal workflows, bypassing traditional legal technology providers. The pivot signals a profound threat to legal service monopolies globally. The paradigm shifted decisively on June 24, 2026, when Perplexity publicly launched Computer for Counsel, which functions as a multi-model orchestration layer that decomposes complex legal queries into discrete subtasks, routing each to one of over twenty frontier AI models. It plugs directly into Midpage, an AI legal research platform providing full-coverage United States federal and state appellate case law, and utilizes proprietary citators to automatically verify if referenced precedents remain legally valid. Through an integration with global human resources platform Deel, the system instantaneously audits employment contracts across 150 different national jurisdictions. Anthropic signaled its identical ambitions on May 12, 2026, when it officially launched Claude for Legal, including twelve practice-area-specific plugins covering commercial, employment, privacy, and corporate artificial intelligence governance, and released over twenty MCP connectors.