Introducing Everlaw’s Anthropic MCP Integration
Search, retrieve, and analyze case materials directly in Claude, all from a single system of record.
Generative AI is opening up new possibilities for legal teams. Workflows that would have been out of reach just a few years ago—searching across complex case data in natural language, coordinating work across multiple systems, retrieving key evidence from a filing, or generating structured analysis from a live matter—are quickly becoming possible.
But these new capabilities depend on a critical foundation: access to the right data, in the right place, with the right controls.
For agentic workflows to work, litigators need AI tools that can securely and seamlessly access and act on the data that drives their matters, wherever that data lives. At the same time, they need to protect that data from being copied into unapproved tools, fragmented across disconnected systems, or accessed outside the governance structures their teams and clients depend on.
That’s why Everlaw is partnering with Anthropic through a Model Context Protocol, or MCP, integration.
With the Everlaw MCP integration, legal teams can use Claude to securely access Everlaw data and complete search, retrieval, and reporting tasks in natural language.
Claude can leverage Everlaw functionality, helping users search across project data, retrieve relevant documents, analyze metadata, and generate structured outputs—all while Everlaw remains the governed system of record for case materials and work product.
Manfred J. Gabriel, partner at Holland & Knight, sees the integration as an important step toward more connected AI workflows in litigation. “At Holland & Knight, we appreciate that Everlaw is working with Anthropic and offering access to their tool through an MCP,” said Gabriel. “We are applying Claude’s capabilities across many litigation workflows and see significant potential in realizing them in the right context. Everlaw allows us to bring the right evidence into the equation, unlocking additional power.”
Everlaw’s latest integration is launching as part of Claude for the legal industry, Anthropics’s effort to connect AI legal ecosystems, with practice-area plugins and partner-contributed skills, while advancing access to justice. Everlaw’s new MCP functionality is available to all joint Everlaw and Anthropic users, including Everlaw for Good partners. Everlaw for Good aims to create a fairer legal system by removing financial and operational barriers to equitable access to justice, grounded in the belief that the justice system only works when all sides have access to the same cutting-edge tools.
Bringing Agentic Workflows to Litigation
When it comes to integrating AI into the practice of law, the opportunity for transformation lies not just in faster drafting and better summaries. It is in the ability to understand vast amounts of data, to start with strategy, rather than routine, and to move fluidly across the tools, data, and processes that shape your practice.
But discovery data is too sensitive, too complex, and too consequential to shuffle between platforms casually. Litigators need AI workflows that respect permissions, preserve governance, and keep case materials anchored in the systems built to manage them. That requires connected platforms, where users and their agents can seamlessly orchestrate their work.
Everlaw’s integration with Anthropic makes that agentic future possible.
By turning Everlaw search, analysis, and reporting into capabilities Claude can access, users can directly control Everlaw and execute Everlaw actions within Claude, whether independently or in conjunction with additional tools and workflows.
The integration gives legal teams a sanctioned way to connect Claude to live matter data. Users can work in natural language while relying on Everlaw’s existing controls, permissions, and platform structure.
The result is a more connected practice: Claude can help users ask questions, retrieve documents, analyze search results, and make sense of project data without requiring anyone to export information or write code.
Three Workflows Made Possible with Everlaw’s MCP Integration
Everlaw’s MCP integration allows legal teams to construct custom actions and workflows to fit their needs. Here are some possible applications illustrating potential use cases, but there is no ceiling on potential applications to your Everlaw data.
Search and Analyze Case Data from Claude
Users can ask Claude to run searches against their Everlaw project data using natural language. Instead of manually constructing searches or relying on technical support to call the API, users can describe what they need and have Claude translate that request into discrete tasks executed in Everlaw.
For example, a user might ask Claude to find documents containing a specific term, retrieve a document by Bates number, or identify relevant materials from a saved search or binder. Claude can then return structured results and explanations to help the user understand what it found.
Users need not stop at retrieval, though. With Claude connected to Everlaw, legal professionals can ask for analyses of project data, search results, binders, and metadata. Claude can help generate usage summaries, dissect search results, visualize document volumes, or identify potential gaps in a document set.
Assemble Case Documents
Before conducting a review of case materials, drafting memos, or preparing for a deposition, legal teams can create a virtual “binder” of case documents to inform their work.
Consider an attorney preparing for a key deposition. With a natural-language prompt to Claude, they can ask Claude to retrieve a saved search of critical files, then filter that to documents authored by the deponent within a specified time frame.
Claude can then access the relevant saved search, apply the specified parameters, and collate the responsive document into a virtual “exhibit binder” for preparation or a table summarizing the documents and linking directly to them within Everlaw.
Conduct Multi-step Workflows Across Your Everlaw Database
Connected workflows allow litigation teams to move beyond documents to broader analysis, leveraging multiple tools and steps in sequence, all from a single prompt.
This allows users to ask more complex questions of their Everlaw data without manually stitching together searches, exports, spreadsheets, and reports. Claude can help interpret a request, identify the right Everlaw data to query, retrieve the relevant results, and turn those results into a usable output.
Connecting Everlaw to Broader Legal Workflows
Legal work doesn’t happen in silos, or even in single systems. Case teams move between discovery platforms, case management systems, drafting tools, communications platforms, and reporting sequences – repeatedly, back and forth, throughout the lifecycle of a matter.
Everlaw’s MCP integration serves as a bridge between Everlaw and your other AI tools like Claude. Litigation teams can use Claude as a front door into Everlaw data, helping orchestrate work streams that start in one tool, retrieve case materials from Everlaw, and support subsequent work in another environment.
That gives teams a more flexible way to build unique, agentic workflows with AI while keeping Everlaw at the center of the discovery record.
How Everlaw’s MCP Integration with Anthropic Works
Mutual customers with the appropriate Everlaw permissions and Anthropic access can configure Claude to connect to Everlaw through the Claude Connector.
Once connected, Claude can leverage a curated set of Everlaw tools. These tools are currently focused on search, document retrieval, and project-level context, including information such as binders, searches, Bates information, and metadata needed to construct useful searches and reports.
Users interact with Claude in natural language, just as they would prompt any chatbot. Claude then invokes custom MCP tools that interface with the Everlaw environment, delivering structured results directly within the chat.
For example, a user could ask Claude to:
“Retrieve and summarize the document with Bates number 509574.”
“Visualize the volume of documents containing the word ‘energy,’ grouped by year.”
“Analyze the metadata in my binders and flag potential data gaps.”
Behind the scenes, Everlaw enforces access through existing platform controls and permissions. Claude can access only the Everlaw data available to the user’s authenticated environment and permissions. Everlaw remains the system of record for case materials, metadata, and work product.
Built for Responsible AI Adoption
Legal teams need to experiment with AI without compromising trust. That means avoiding ad hoc exports, unmanaged data movement, and disconnected workflows that create new risks for sensitive litigation data.
The Everlaw MCP integration gives teams a more secure, sanctioned path. Users can bring Claude to their Everlaw data for search and reporting while relying on Everlaw’s existing permissioning and governance model. The integration allows teams to explore AI-enabled processes while preserving control over where case data lives and how it is accessed.
A Step Toward Agent-First Legal Work
The legal industry is moving toward a future where AI agents can help professionals complete complex, multi-step tasks across the tools they use every day. For that future to work in litigation and investigations, AI needs secure access to the right data, governed by the right systems.
Everlaw’s partnership with Anthropic is an important step in that direction.
By connecting Claude to Everlaw through MCP, legal teams can begin to use AI in a more integrated, practical way: searching case data, retrieving documents, analyzing project information, and connecting discovery workflows to the rest of their legal stack.
As legal teams continue to adopt AI, Everlaw is committed to helping them do so with speed, confidence, and control.
Start using Everlaw’s Anthropic integration today by enabling it via your Claude Connectors Directory or request a demo to learn more about Everlaw’s AI and platform integrations.
