Claude for Lawyers: Query Your Case Files Through MCP

Claude for Lawyers: Query Your Case Files Through MCP

Connect Claude Desktop or Claude Code to your Evidence Copilot cases and ask questions across bodycam, jail calls, and police reports — every answer cited to the exact video second or PDF page.

The Discovery Pile Is Winning

• Discovery volume outstrips attorney hours — 50+ concurrent cases is the new normal — Police reports, witness statements, forensic analyses, and hours of bodycam footage across dozens of files create an unmanageable documentation burden for attorneys handling 50+ cases simultaneously. With the industry average law firm utilization rate at just 37% — 2.9 billable hours per 8-hour day (Clio Legal Trends Report) — there is simply no block of quiet time to scrub bodycam footage or cross-reference a 40-page police report against the interrogation video. Discovery arrives faster than it can be reviewed, and the review backlog grows every week.
• The 1973 NAC caseload standards were never realistic — and defenders are still measured against them — The 1973 National Advisory Commission (NAC) standards — 150 felonies and 400 misdemeanors per attorney per year — are widely considered too high and not empirically based. Modern Delphi Method workload studies show even those numbers dramatically understate the time real cases require. Public defenders and assigned counsel are forced into constant caseload triage, deciding which clients get deep preparation and which get the minimum. When caseload standards themselves are broken, the only lever left is reviewing discovery faster without cutting corners.
• Triage replaces preparation — motions to suppress and cross-exams are the first casualties — Overloaded indigent defense attorneys cannot give appropriate time to each client, a toll on Sixth Amendment representation documented in NACDL caseload resources. The work that wins cases — filing motions to suppress, building Brady and Giglio review, preparing cross-examination from report-vs-bodycam contradictions — is exactly the work that gets triaged away. A motion to suppress that hinges on the exact second an officer read Miranda rights, or a cross-exam built on a jail call that contradicts a co-defendant's statement, requires finding the needle in hours of media. When you can't find it fast, it doesn't get found at all.

Why Defenders <span class="gradient">Choose Evidence Copilot</span>

• Ask Claude, verify in one click — Ask Claude, verify in one click. Working in Claude Desktop or Claude Code, ask "what did the officer say about consent on the bodycam?" or "which jail call mentions the co-defendant's car?" — the MCP server's search_evidence and get_citation tools return an answer with a citation that seeks the exact video moment or PDF page in Evidence Copilot. Verification takes seconds instead of scrubbing hours of footage, so the answer stays grounded in the discovery itself, not in the model's memory.
• Read-only, audited, revocable — Read-only, audited, revocable — the posture ethics-conscious defenders demand. The MCP connection exposes only list_cases, list_evidence, search_evidence, read_window, and get_citation. It cannot write to your cases, cannot alter evidence, and cannot export. Tokens are org-scoped and revocable, and every query is fully audited. Client files stay immutable in the workspace; Claude is a read window onto them, nothing more.
• Built for how defenders actually work — Built for how defenders actually work. Claude queries pull from a workspace that already does the heavy lifting: the Suppression Motion Prep playbook runs a consent/search-scope/stop-duration/K-9/Miranda sweep and drafts a motion outline with both sides quoted and cited; the Miranda Timeline builds a chronological custodial-interrogation record; cross-exam drafts generate suggested questions with every question tied to a quoted source; and frame-accurate redaction handles discovery turnover. The full workspace is included on every plan — there are no feature tiers.

What's included

• MCP server for Claude Desktop and Claude Code: list_cases, list_evidence, search_evidence, read_window, and get_citation — read-only, org-scoped, revocable, fully audited.
• Deepgram Nova transcription with speaker diarization and word-level timestamps, plus one-click speaker renaming that propagates across every segment.
• OCR turns scanned PDFs and photo evidence into searchable, citable text with bounding boxes kept for redaction.
• Auto-signals on ingest compare every new file against earlier evidence, surfacing candidate inconsistencies like report-vs-bodycam as unreviewed review signals.
• Agent playbooks including Suppression Motion Prep and Miranda Timeline, drafting outlines with both sides quoted and cited.
• Frame-accurate video, audio, image, and PDF redaction where originals are never touched and every action is audited.

Quick wins

• Query your whole caseload from Claude Code with list_cases, then drill into a single case's evidence with list_evidence — no context-switching between the workspace and your research session.
• Use search_evidence through MCP to pull every mention of a named officer or witness across police reports, jail calls, and bodycam transcripts before a preliminary hearing.

How it works

1. Upload your discovery dump — Send bodycam video, interrogation footage, jail calls, 911 audio, police reports, and scanned documents — up to 2 GB per file by web upload or email attachment.
2. Connect Claude via MCP — Point Claude Desktop or Claude Code at your Evidence Copilot MCP server with your org-scoped token. Search, read windows, and pull citations — read-only and fully audited.
3. Verify and build your defense — Every Claude answer carries a citation into the exact video moment or PDF page. Verify in Evidence Copilot, save notes and timeline events, and draft cross-exam questions tied to quoted sources.

How Evidence Copilot <span class="gradient">Connects Claude</span> to Your Evidence

• Query your cases from Claude Desktop or Claude Code through a read-only, org-scoped MCP server with revocable tokens
• Every citation points to the exact video second or PDF page inside Evidence Copilot, where you can verify before relying on it
• The full workspace stays grounded: timestamped diarized transcripts, OCR'd documents, and AI output always marked pending human review

Why we're different

• The only defense-side evidence platform with an MCP integration for Claude
• Every AI answer cites the exact video second or PDF page
• Read-only MCP access — Claude can never write to your cases
• Originals are immutable; every redaction is a new derived file
• Auto-signals surface report-vs-bodycam inconsistencies before you ask
• Published pricing with no sales wall — Solo starts at $39/user/mo
• AI output is always marked pending human review, never legal conclusions
• Defense-only by design — no prosecution or law-enforcement use cases

The only defense-side evidence-review platform with an MCP integration for Claude — built for US criminal-defense attorneys, law clerks, investigators, and PD offices.

What clients say

I asked Claude which jail call contradicted the co-defendant's statement and got a citation straight into the call audio through the MCP server. I verified it in seconds instead of re-listening to every call.

— Marcus Delgado

The MCP connection is read-only and every query is audited, which is exactly what I needed before putting AI anywhere near client files. Tokens are revocable and org-scoped, so I can pull case evidence into Claude without worrying about the tool touching anything.

— Sarah Whitfield

The Suppression Motion Prep playbook quotes both sides with citations — consent, search scope, Miranda, all of it. Pairing that with Claude search through MCP changed how I prep motions. I can ask Claude for the stop-duration facts and get a citation into the dashcam footage before I even open the workspace.

— Dana Okafor

Frequently asked questions

Book a 20-minute walkthrough at evidencecopilot.com/book, or start on the Solo plan at $39/user/mo — every plan includes the full workspace.