Everlaw connects its evidence platform to Microsoft 365 Copilot via MCP

What the integration does

The integration connects Everlaw, which the company describes as an evidentiary system of record, with Microsoft 365, where many attorneys draft briefs and reports, collaborate with colleagues and build presentations. Everlaw says the aim is to help lawyers move more naturally from evidence to understanding to action, without switching manually between an evidence platform, an AI tool and a drafting environment.

The MCP integration gives Microsoft 365 Copilot access to what Everlaw calls a curated set of its capabilities. These cover understanding matters, finding evidence, analyzing information and supporting early case insights. Everlaw says it is available as of the announcement to customers who use both Everlaw and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Agents, search and Notebooks

Everlaw outlines several ways the integration can be used inside Copilot.

• Agents: Copilot Agents can combine natural-language reasoning with Everlaw tools for multi-step workflows. An agent might identify the relevant Everlaw matter, understand its datasets and metadata, locate a targeted set of documents and use that as the basis for further analysis. Everlaw says its MCP tools are designed to help agents orient themselves to the correct project and evidence before deeper analysis.
• Search: Legal teams can make conversational requests to find information in Everlaw by project, search term, Bates number, saved search, binder and other criteria, rather than building every query by hand.
• Notebooks: Once evidence is identified, Copilot Notebooks can serve as a place to combine it with other materials around an issue, investigation or workstream before drafting or making a strategic decision.

Everlaw describes these as a starting point. It says its MCP integrations are intentionally designed as an open foundation, so teams can build workflows that fit their matters instead of a fixed set of predefined use cases.

Governance stays in Everlaw

The company stresses control over sensitive case material. According to Everlaw, the underlying case record remains governed in Everlaw, and the integration applies the platform's existing permissions and access controls. An AI assistant can therefore access only the information available to the authenticated user.

Data is accessed on demand, Everlaw says, so teams do not need to create a separate long-term copy of the case corpus in another AI workspace. The company argues that this matters in legal work, where confidentiality, auditability, defensibility and control are fundamental requirements.

What it means for legal teams

For firms and legal departments that already work in Microsoft 365 and use Everlaw for litigation or investigations, the integration offers a route to apply Copilot to the live case record while staying in their usual tools. Everlaw says the platform handles AI and analytics across document populations of hundreds of millions of documents or more.

Everlaw frames its broader position as providing the evidence layer beneath legal AI tools, so attorneys do not have to choose between the AI applications they want and the governance their work demands. The source does not give pricing or details on how customers enable the connector beyond its listing in the Copilot connectors gallery.