Claude Paxton Legal Research connectorWhat Claude can do in your Paxton Legal Research account.
The Claude Paxton Legal Research connector exposes 5 tools. 4 search or open U.S. legal sources, 0 write, 1 is undocumented because no source describes it by name. Below: what Claude finds, what it never touches, and what you still verify yourself.
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What changes for anyone researching U.S. law
You ask a U.S. law question in the chat, naming a jurisdiction and a specific issue, and Claude pulls the relevant authorities from Paxton by itself. It brings back the passages that support the answer, with links to the source, so you read the authority yourself instead of trusting a summary.
Open the full source. Paxton says the connector searches U.S. statutes, regulations, rules and case law; once a search returns a source, get_source_text opens it in full so the exact wording is on screen.
Work the case law. search_case_law finds court opinions with jurisdiction and date filters, and get_citator_info shows which cases cite a decision, which ones it cites, and the treatment information available.
Cover agency decisions. search_administrative_decisions finds EEOC and NLRB decisions along with their supporting passages. A fifth tool, search_legal_research, has no description of its own in any source.
What Claude doesn't do with Paxton: it won't read your private matter files, upload anything, edit a matter or file a pleading. Paxton also warns that a missing status result never confirms an authority is good law. Nothing runs in the background either, so no alert fires when a new opinion comes down. That kind of monitoring belongs to an automation tool, a different job; the Integrations hub covers that side.
Words to know before you connect
Five terms the rest of this page relies on.
- Connector
- The bridge you set up once between Claude and an account you already hold, so it can work there during its answers.
- Tool
- A named capability the connector lends Claude. It decides on its own which ones to call; the directory lists them by name.
- Authorization
- The service's sign-in page, where you grant Claude the access it will use. Once per person, and revocable the same way.
- Approval
- The green light Claude waits for before an action that changes something in an account, requested right in the chat.
- MCP
- The protocol every connector shares, the piece that lets an assistant like Claude talk to a third-party service.
Connect Paxton to Claude in three steps
- 01
Spot Paxton in Claude
In Claude's settings, open Customize, then Connectors, and look for Paxton Legal Research. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner enables it for the organization first, then each person connects.
- 02
Sign in with your Paxton account
Click Connect on its row and sign in through the window Paxton opens. Every person authorizes their own connection. If the link breaks, hit Disconnect and connect again.
- 03
Accept the authorization screen
Read this screen before you agree: it's Paxton's, not Claude's, and it decides what the access covers. You can withdraw that access later from your Paxton account.
The 5 tools, grouped by what they do
Paxton Legal Research gives Claude 5 tools: 4 that read your account, 0 that change something in it, and 1 no official source describes.
Four tools consult legal sources; the fifth has no description of its own in any source. Names stay in English, exactly as Claude shows them.
- 4 read
- 1 not documented
What Claude reads (4)
4 toolsFour search and reading tools over Paxton's legal sources.
get_citator_info
For a given case, lists the decisions that cite it, the ones it cites, and whatever treatment information Paxton has on it. The citation history comes back alongside the case itself, inside the conversation.
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get_source_text
Opens in full the legal source a search returned, so the complete text replaces the passage that surfaced in the results. It works on what a search has already found rather than running a new query.
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search_administrative_decisions
Searches the EEOC and NLRB decisions Paxton indexes and returns them with the passages that support the answer. It's the one tool on the sheet aimed at agency decisions rather than courts or legislation.
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search_case_law
Finds court opinions, filtered by jurisdiction and by date. Paxton suggests asking Claude to tell holdings apart from arguments or quoted material once the opinions are in.
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Undocumented (1)
1 toolNo source describes this tool by name. We don't guess what it does from its name.
search_legal_research
No source describes this tool by name. Paxton's documentation lists a search of federal and state statutes, regulations and rules among the connector's functions, and calls the connector as a whole read-only, but it doesn't say which tool carries that search.
What Claude asks before acting
By default, Claude pauses and asks for your go-ahead before each action it takes on an account for you. The prompt shows up in the chat, at the right moment.
Paxton presents its connector as research only, and no source describes a confirmation specific to any of the five tools. The publisher notes that Claude sends Paxton the arguments of the tools you authorize. On Team and Enterprise, Owners choose whether a member may let some actions through without being asked again, and can restrict the connector for the whole organization. No one gets around that from their own account. And whatever happens, Claude only ever works with your Paxton permissions.
Which plans it's available on
Across the 819 sheets in the official directory, none publishes plan availability. The per-connector answer doesn't exist anywhere.
What is published is the general rule: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner enables the connector for the organization before members connect. For the current state, the Paxton sheet in the official directory is what counts, checked from your own account.
Where this connector stops
A connector isn't an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers, so no search reruns by itself when a new opinion is published.
By default the directory sheet only exposes read tools, and Paxton says the same. That's an observed floor, not a guarantee: an admin can open actions that appear on no public sheet. This connector is documented by its publisher alone; the rest of the family lives on the Claude connectors hub. The directory badge isn't an audit either, since Anthropic doesn't choose the tools a publisher exposes or vouch for how they behave.
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