CARET API
CARET Legal launched a public API recently, and it is narrow: matter records plus associated contacts, notes, custom fields, and files. Access takes a contact form and vendor approval, with docs gated behind the same form. Billing, trust accounting, documents, and email have no API path.
Frequently asked questions
CARET scores D on the API Report Card. CARET Legal launched a public API recently, and it is narrow: matter records plus associated contacts, notes, custom fields, and files. Access takes a contact form and vendor approval, with docs gated behind the same form. Billing, trust accounting, documents, and email have no API path.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
CARET Legal (formerly Zola Suite) is an all-in-one cloud-based legal practice management platform for U.S. law firms. It centralizes matter management, contacts, documents, email, time tracking, billing, trust accounting, tasks, calendars, CRM, and reporting into a single system.
Legal, Typically for small to mid-size U.S. law firms (1-100 attorneys) across all practice areas including family law, trusts & estates, litigation, and general practice. Law firms use CARET Legal daily for end-to-end practice operations: opening and managing client matters, tracking billable time, generating invoices, managing trust/IOLTA accounts, storing and organizing case documents, sending and receiving case-related emails, scheduling via integrated calendars, running financial and performance reports, and managing client intake workflows.
CARET Legal has ~201 reviews on G2 (4.5 stars) and additional reviews on Capterra and Software Advice. The parent company CARET (formerly AbacusNext) has 581 total reviews across products.
Yes, CARET Legal holds highly critical law firm operating data including: client/matter information, case documents, attorney-client communications (email), billable time records, invoices, trust/IOLTA accounting records, financial reports, calendar/deadlines, and client intake data.
~11 years old (Zola Suite founded ~2015, parent company AbacusNext founded 1983, rebranded to CARET in 2023). The platform is cloud-based and relatively modern, with ongoing updates including AI features and new integrations.
API is brand new and extremely limited in scope, only covers matter-related data, no billing/accounting/documents/email endpoints. API access requires form submission and approval, not self-service. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Clio Manage, Smokeball, MyCase (8am), PracticePanther, CosmoLex, Rocket Matter. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial CARET API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write CARET data. See the CARET integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/caret-api.