Tag: legal-research

Three kinds of briefs for legal teams: daily briefs of to-dos and deadlines from email, calendar and contracts; topic briefs on a legal question; and incident briefs for breaches, litigation threats or regulator inquiries. Needs email and calendar tools. From Anthropic; not legal advice.

Anthropic's official legal plugin marketplace: 13 plugins covering commercial contracts, privacy, product counsel, M&A, employment, regulatory, AI governance, litigation and IP, plus plugins for law school clinics and law students. All output is a draft for attorney review.

Pre-termination check for high-risk factors (recent complaints, protected leave, discrimination or retaliation, thin documentation), reviews severance and separation agreements, and looks up state final-pay deadlines. US-focused; needs web or a legal database. Lawyer review required. By Anthropic.

Answers wage and hour questions for a specific state or country, such as worker classification, overtime, meal and rest breaks, leave and final pay, citing the law for each point and flagging when judgment is needed. US-focused; needs web or a legal database. Lawyer review required. By Anthropic.

Anthropic's official litigation plugin: manages the case portfolio, deadlines, legal holds and outside counsel progress, and builds claim charts, fact chronologies, witness outlines, first-pass privilege logs and brief section drafts. Outputs are drafts for attorney review.

Anthropic's official regulatory compliance plugin: monitors sources like the Federal Register, compares new rules with your policy library to find gaps, tracks comment deadlines and open gaps, and drafts policy revisions and weekly regulatory digests. Outputs are drafts for attorney review.

Anthropic's official IP plugin: trademark clearance screening, freedom-to-operate and infringement triage, invention disclosure intake, drafting or responding to cease-and-desist letters and DMCA takedowns, open-source license compliance checks and renewal deadline tracking.

Anthropic's official plugin for US law school clinics: faculty set clinic rules once, then students use it for structured intake, first drafts, IRAC memo scaffolds, deadline tracking and end-of-term handoffs. It scaffolds; students analyze. Check data retention first; supervisors review output.

Searches Korean statutes, case law, administrative rules and local ordinances via the Korean Ministry of Government Legislation's Open API, verifies whether cited provisions and cases exist, and compares versions over time. Needs a free API key and Node.js; have a lawyer review results.

Ports Anthropic's claude-for-legal to German law: a marketplace of 240+ plugins for contract drafting, employment, corporate, insolvency, data protection, litigation and construction law, plus practice case files. In German; experimental, so results need a lawyer's review.

Self-hosted open-source platform for contract and legal document analysis: detects cited laws and builds a citation graph, and its MCP server lets agents search the corpus, read texts and annotations, and follow citations. Deploy your own instance with Docker; have a lawyer review results.

250+ human-reviewed legal skills from practicing lawyers, in-house counsel and academics, mostly US and EU law: compliance, GDPR, legal research, litigation, contract review and drafting, the EU AI Act. Install all or pick one; output is a draft for a lawyer to review.

Three skills for US utility patents: audit a draft against a 316-item checklist before filing, have a subagent play a USPTO examiner to simulate prosecution, then test design-arounds from a competitor's view. Needs Python 3; not legal advice, so have a patent attorney or agent review.

Queries SEC EDGAR 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filings, XBRL financial statements and insider trades, with links to the source documents for checking; for investment research and compliance due diligence. Free, no API key; needs uv and a SEC_EDGAR_USER_AGENT with your name and email.

Free remote MCP for Taiwan law (no sign-up or key): semantic search over 22M+ court rulings and administrative interpretations, exact statute lookup, and rulings linked across court levels with a citation whitelist to catch fake cites. Browser authorization on first use; have a lawyer review.

Searches Taiwan's court judgments, national laws database and Constitutional Court interpretations, with full texts, amendment history and citation links. Public government sources only, no account; needs Python and pipx. Unofficial: have a lawyer check results against official texts.

UK legal research service from i.AI, the UK government's AI incubator, with a remote MCP: semantic search over UK legislation, amendments and explanatory notes. Connect directly, no account. Officially experimental; case law is temporarily disabled and results need a lawyer's review.

Skill pack for law firms and in-house teams: NDA triage, multi-draft redline comparison, bulk due diligence review, meeting briefs, citation checks and weekly reports, plus privilege notes and an AI policy template. Briefs need calendar and email access. US/UK-oriented; have a lawyer review output.

Patsnap's official patent MCP servers: search 200M+ patents worldwide, check legal status and annuity fees, and run novelty, FTO, valuation and portfolio analyses. Needs a Patsnap Open Platform API key; each service connects separately (the command adds advanced search).

Taps CourtListener's 4M+ US court opinions: search case law by topic, trace citing and cited cases, and parse Bluebook citations; with accounts configured it also queries PACER federal dockets and Clio matters and time entries. Needs Python (uv); a licensed attorney must review results.

Legal education skills from Harvard's Library Innovation Lab: help teachers build casebook-based syllabi, run Socratic Q&A and mock exam feedback for students, help self-represented litigants frame issues and learn legal research, plus CLE plans for lawyers. US law school focus; not legal advice.

Local MCP for paralegal work: analyzes clause risk in Word contracts, compares two contract versions, extracts parties, dates and other key terms, outlines pleadings, and optionally searches US case law via CourtListener. US-focused; needs local Python. A lawyer must review results.

Official hosted MCP from the nonprofit Free Law Project: search US federal and state court opinions, dockets and judges, extract and verify case citations in documents, and subscribe to case alerts. Needs a free CourtListener account (browser sign-in); a lawyer should review results.

Vaquill's official legal research MCP: search US federal and state codes, CFR, constitutions, court rules and the Federal Register, resolve Bluebook citations to statute text, plus Indian law. Needs a credit-based API key (non-commercial users can request free credits). A lawyer must review.