Frequently asked questions

Five legal datasets from one provider, LAW.co: U.S. court opinions, LAW.co AI case summaries, a case citation graph, a small table of state estate-planning statute reference values, and a state bill monitor that is restricted and not available through Data.co.

No. Full statute corpora and regulations are not currently offered. LAW.co does not hold them. The only statute-related data is the small estate-planning reference table, which is contact-only.

We do not publish record counts until we have verified them with the provider. Every LAW.co listing currently shows its count as “Not yet verified”.

Synthetic placeholder records used for the previews on this site. The API returns live records; [DEMO] records are not real cases, statutes or bills, have no legal meaning and are never billed.

No. Opinion text is not official or certified, and AI summaries are machine-generated and must not be cited as authority.

Yes. Sign up at app.data.co, create an organization API key, and call api.data.co/v1 or the MCP server at api.data.co/mcp. LAW.co court opinions, case summaries and the citation graph are live; the statute reference table is not yet populated.

Not today. Downloads are rights-gated: the license must allow redistribution and the provider must confirm. Every LAW.co download channel is awaiting rights confirmation.

Organization API keys with explicit scopes (for example datasets:read, legal:read, mcp:invoke). The same key works for REST and MCP.

The Model Context Protocol is an open standard for connecting AI applications to tools and data. The Data.co MCP server exposes marketplace datasets as tools an agent can call, with the same keys and permissions as the REST API.

LAW.co's current search endpoint samples up to 50 matches at random. Responses carry a warning saying so until LAW.co ships a paginated search endpoint.

Not yet; SDKs are planned. The API is plain JSON over HTTPS, and we document raw HTTP and function-calling examples.

The provider. Public-domain material like court-authored opinion text stays public domain; LAW.co's summaries and citation graph are LAW.co's proprietary work. Each dataset page states its license and redistribution status.

There is a Free plan; Pro is $149/month and Business is $799/month (billed monthly in USD); Enterprise is quoted. Some datasets carry premium provider pricing on top, also not yet published.

Only where the dataset's license allows. LAW.co's terms currently prohibit training on its corpus without a written agreement.

No. LAW.co is affiliated with Data.co. A written intercompany agreement covering redistribution and pricing is pending, and LAW.co data is not sold until it is signed.

Provenance records where a record came from: the provider, the upstream source, the canonical URL, the license, when it was retrieved and whether it is derived. It lets you cite correctly and lets an agent tell source text from generated text.

false means original source text or facts, such as a court's opinion. true means an AI or editorial layer, such as a LAW.co summary, which travels in a separate enrichment block with its own provenance.

Cite the case name, reporter citation, court and year, link the canonical URL when present, and credit LAW.co and the upstream source where you display records. Never cite an AI summary as the court's words.

Each channel — web, REST, MCP, download — has its own status. A channel can be available, not yet connected, waiting on rights confirmation, or not offered at all, and the listing gives the reason.

No. Plans are billed monthly in USD before tax; sales tax or VAT may be added depending on your billing location.

Yes, from the billing portal in the app. Upgrades and downgrades are prorated, and cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for.

Enterprise agreements can be invoiced. Self-serve Pro and Business plans are paid by card.

Apply on the provider page. We review licensing, provenance and quality, then list your datasets with honest access statuses.

No. Data.co can call your API at request time and store only references and usage events.

It is set per provider agreement, depending on hosting, delivery cost and any enrichment. We do not publish a standard percentage.