# Trellis Research

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/trellis-research/  
**Website:** https://trellis.law/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Trellis (trellis.law) is an AI-powered state and federal court research and litigation analytics platform built by litigators for legal teams. It aggregates the most extensive U.S. trial court data available — State Trial, Federal, District, Appellate, Supreme Court, and Bankruptcy cases across all 50 states plus DC — and exposes it through Smart Search, a REST Data API (V2, with federal and PACER integration), and a remote OAuth-secured MCP server. Capabilities include case/docket search, document retrieval, tentative rulings, verdict records, judge and firm analytics, party and expert search, case/topic alerts, and webhook notifications for docket refreshes.

## Kin Score — 41.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 45.1 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 39.3 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | verified |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Trellis Trial Court Data API** — REST Data API (V2, May 2024) for programmatic access to U.S. state and federal trial court data — Search (Boolean/query over Cases, Documents, Rulings with filtering and sorting...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Trellis Law MCP** — Official remote MCP server from Trellis (trellis.law) exposing litigation research tools over U.S. state, federal, appellate, supreme, and bankruptcy court data — case search, d...

## Security (2)

- **Trellis Research Authentication** — apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Trellis Research Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Legal, Legal Research, Court Records, Litigation Analytics, Judicial Analytics, Legal Data, MCP

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/trellis-research/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.