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 Supergood's 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. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
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.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Yes, via a managed API layer. Supergood builds REST APIs and MCP servers for authenticated enterprise web apps, so AI agents and internal tools can read and write data programmatically. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
Not that we could find. As of August 2026 there is no official CARET MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. CARET doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.