About Legal Research Agent
Legal Research Agent is an MCP server published by jcpask in the Blockchain category: mCP server for legal research that enables searching US case law via CourtListener, retrieving full opinion text, and looking up legal definitions from Cornell's Wex. Students can connect via a remote connector in Claude.ai to cite real, free legal sources.
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Install
git clone https://github.com/jcpask/legal-research-agentThis server has no ConduID identity, so agent calls to it are not receipted. Pin the version you install and review the source before granting it credentials.
Tools (3)
get_opinion_text(cluster_id)Fetches the full opinion text for a case found via `search_case_law`. **Requires a free CourtListener API token** (see below) — without one it tells the student to use the link instead.
Parameters not published.
lookup_legal_term(term)Looks up a term in Cornell's Wex dictionary. Tries the exact page first, then falls back to browsing Wex's alphabetical index for the closest match (handles typos/variants).
Parameters not published.
search_case_law(query, court, filed_after, filed_before, max_results)Searches CourtListener's case law index. Returns case name, citation, court, date, a snippet, a link to the full case, and a `cluster_id`.
Parameters not published.
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