Claude Midpage Legal Research connectorWhat Claude can do in your Midpage Legal Research account.
The Claude Midpage Legal Research connector exposes 3 tools. All 3 read, 0 write: Claude searches US case law, pulls quotable passages from a single opinion and reads a full ruling to answer a question. Here is what it covers and where it stops.
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What changes for a legal research session
Instead of running searches in one tab and drafting in another, you describe the legal issue to Claude and it queries Midpage's case law database itself. Midpage says every result links back to the real source, so each citation can be opened and checked before you rely on it.
A first pass on the case law. For a precise legal question across federal and state courts, search returns matching cases with metadata, highlights and citator treatment data.
The exact sentence to quote. Once a promising opinion turns up, findInOpinion runs a keyword search inside that one decision and brings back passages worth quoting.
A ruling read against your question. For a long opinion, analyzeOpinion reads the whole document, answers the question you asked and returns the supporting excerpts.
And the edges, because a research tool is only as useful as its stated limits. The database is US case law, federal and state; nothing on the sheet covers other countries. Claude only reads here: no tool files, saves or shares anything in Midpage. Nothing runs on its own either, so no new decision triggers an alert. That kind of watch belongs to an automation tool, a different job gathered on the Integrations hub.
The words you will meet
Five terms from Claude's settings, explained once.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already have, so Claude can work in it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named thing a connector lets Claude do on that account. Claude picks the tools it needs as it replies; the directory lists them.
- Authorization
- Midpage's own sign-in screen, where you hand Claude the access it will use afterwards. Given once per person, revocable the same way.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes through with something that changes an account, shown in the chat when it matters.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service.
Connect Midpage to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Midpage in your settings
In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, and locate Midpage Legal Research in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner enables the connector before members can sign in.
- 02
Sign in to Midpage
Click Connect on its row and log in with your Midpage account in the window Midpage opens. If the link ever stops working, use Disconnect, then connect it again.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Before you confirm, read what the screen asks for. It is Midpage's screen, not Claude's, and it decides what the access covers. You can withdraw that access later from the Midpage side too.
The 3 tools, grouped by what they do
Midpage Legal Research gives Claude 3 tools: 3 that read your account, 0 that change something in it.
All three tools on the directory sheet read. Names stay in English, as Claude shows them.
- 3 read
What Claude reads (3)
3 toolsThree tools that search and read case law, without touching your Midpage account.
search
Queries US case law across federal and state courts and returns the matching decisions with their metadata, highlighted extracts and citator treatment. Midpage's docs say several phrasings of the same question can run in parallel.
findInOpinion
Looks inside one opinion with a keyword search and returns passages you can quote. Claude stays within the decision you already picked rather than reopening the whole database.
analyzeOpinion
Reads a full decision, answers your question about it and hands back the text excerpts that support the answer, so every claim points to a line of the ruling.
What Claude asks before acting
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before every action it takes on an account for you. The prompt shows up in the conversation, right when it matters.
On Team and Enterprise, workspace owners decide whether a member may let certain actions through without being asked every time. They can also limit what a connector may do for the whole organization, for instance keeping reads and closing writes, and nobody overrides that from their own account. Claude works with your rights and nothing more: research you cannot reach in Midpage stays out of its reach too. The official read-only versus write label per tool only appears in a connected account's settings.
Which plans include it
Out of 819 sheets in the official directory, none shows plan availability. That answer, connector by connector, is published nowhere.
The general rule is published: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner enables a connector for the organization before each member can sign in. On Midpage's side, its documentation asks you to sign in with your Midpage account when prompted. For the up-to-date state on your account, check the connector's sheet in the official directory.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you; nothing starts when a court publishes a new opinion.
Only Midpage documents this connector: Claude's help center has no page for it, so the limits below come from the publisher. A tool list showing only reads is an observed floor, not a guarantee. The directory's verification badge is not a security audit, and Anthropic writes on every sheet that it does not pick the tools a publisher exposes. The biggest trap here is versioning: the tools on the sheet are not the ones Midpage now presents first. For automated monitoring, start from the Integrations hub.
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