Video tutorial: monitoring in 5 minutes
We film the workflow from start to finish. A concrete employment law case.
Legal monitoring is a professional obligation. But in practice, it often takes a back seat to urgent matters. A decree slips past you. A Court of Cassation decision you should have seen three weeks ago.
This guide explains how to automate that monitoring by connecting Claude Cowork to official legal databases. No summaries of summaries. No newsletters that arrive too late. Primary sources, queried every morning, formatted to your needs.
The problem
Three scenarios you probably know well.
Google alerts
You've set up alerts. The result: 40 emails a day, 35 of which have nothing to do with your practice. You stop reading them. The monitoring falls apart.
Publisher newsletters
LexisNexis, Dalloz, Francis Lefebvre — their newsletters are serious. But they arrive late, they cover the entire spectrum of law, and they don't match your collective agreements or your specific clientele.
Manual monitoring
You query Légifrance, the JORF and the case law databases yourself. It's reliable. But it takes 2 hours a week — which you don't have. On busy weeks, you skip it. And it's precisely those weeks when something important comes out.
Nobody has the time. Monitoring slips through the cracks. Not out of negligence, but out of operational reality.
- Google alerts generate noise, not signal. They don't discriminate by your specialty.
- Publisher newsletters are late and too broad. They don't know your IDCCs or your clientele.
- Manual monitoring is reliable but costs 2 hours a week — hours you can't find on busy weeks.
What we set up
Zevra connected Claude Cowork to the official French legal databases via MCP connectors. Claude doesn't hallucinate sources — it queries them directly, in real time.
The 6 available connectors
Légifrance LODA
Codes, laws, decrees, consolidated orders. The foundation of French positive law.
KALI
National collective agreements. Searchable by IDCC, sector or keyword.
JORF
Official Journal. Every published text, searchable by date, NOR, topic or keyword.
JURI
French case law. Court of Cassation, Council of State, courts of appeal.
Pappers Justice
Enriched court decisions. Search by court, subject matter, date or reference.
data.gouv
French government open data. Statistics, registries, public datasets.
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- Claude doesn't invent sources: it queries the official databases in real time via MCP connectors.
- 6 connectors cover the essentials of French law: texts, collective agreements, JORF, case law.
- Installation takes 5 minutes via the MCP Factory. No technical skills required.
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The 5-step workflow
Here is exactly how automated monitoring works with Claude Cowork and the legal MCP connectors.
Frame the request
You describe your monitoring in natural language: the area, the sources to query, the desired output format. The AskUserQuestion instruction lets Claude ask you questions to refine things before executing.
I want to set up legal monitoring in employment law, specifically relating to senior executive employees, connected to the JORF, KALI, Légifrance and Pappers MCPs as well as BOSS. Produce a concise summary of the news every morning.
First explore my folder. Then ask me questions using AskUserQuestion. I want to refine the approach with you before you execute.Claude queries the official databases
Once the request is validated, Claude Cowork calls the configured MCP connectors one after another:
- ▸ JORF — the latest texts published in the Official Journal matching your topics
- ▸ KALI — updates to the collective agreements you track
- ▸ JURI / Pappers Justice — recent case law from the relevant chambers
- ▸ BOSS — for employment law, the official bulletins of the Social Security
Every call is traced. You can see exactly which queries Claude ran and what results it obtained.
Sorting, cross-referencing, prioritizing
Claude filters the results by relevance to your practice, cross-references the sources to identify overlapping texts, and prioritizes by practical impact:
- ▸ A decree that amends a collective agreement you track is bumped to the top
- ▸ Reversal rulings are distinguished from confirmations of established case law
- ▸ Texts with no impact on your specialty are excluded from the digest
Producing the monitoring note
Claude produces your digest in the format you specified. The format is configurable to your use case:
Scheduling the recurrence
Cowork lets you schedule automatic execution at a fixed time. You give the instruction once, and your monitoring runs autonomously every morning.
Every day at 7:30 am:
Run the senior executive employment law monitoring.
Query the JORF, KALI, Légifrance and Pappers Justice.
Create the digest in Recherches/Veille/YYYY-MM-DD_veille-droit-social.mdRequirement — For scheduling to work, your computer must be turned on and Claude Desktop must be open at the scheduled time. Ideal if your machine stays in sleep mode at night (don't confuse system sleep with closing the application).
- The full workflow is configured once. After that, Claude runs it autonomously every morning.
- Every MCP call is traceable — you see exactly what Claude queried and what it found.
- The output format is configurable: Markdown, Word, PDF depending on your setup.
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Examples by specialty
Three ready-to-copy prompts, calibrated for the most common specialties. Adapt the IDCCs, the chambers and the topics to your practice.
Employment law
Daily monitoring of employment law.
Sources: JORF, KALI (SYNTEC IDCC 1486 and Metallurgy IDCC 3248 collective agreements), case law of the Social Chamber of the Court of Cassation.
Priority topics: dismissal, harassment, working time, remote work.
Format: Markdown note with, for each item: date, reference, 3-line summary, practical impact.
File: Veille/YYYY-MM-DD_droit-travail.mdBusiness law
Weekly monitoring (every Monday at 8 am) of business law.
Sources: JORF (decrees and ordinances), Légifrance (Commercial Code), case law of the Commercial Chamber of the Court of Cassation.
Topics: insolvency proceedings, transfers of business goodwill, commercial leases, company law.
Format: note structured by topic, with exact references.
File: Veille/YYYY-MM-DD_droit-affaires.mdFamily law
Twice-monthly monitoring of family law.
Sources: JORF, case law of the First Civil Chamber of the Court of Cassation, Pappers Justice.
Topics: divorce, child support, compensatory allowance, parental authority, inheritance.
Format: one sheet per decision (date, court, number, ruling, 2-line commentary).
File: Veille/YYYY-MM-DD_droit-famille.mdPersonalization tip
Replace the IDCCs with your actual collective agreements, specify your usual courts, and add firm context to your working folder. Claude will use it to fine-tune the relevance of the results to your specific practice.
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The limits
This approach is effective. It also has limits you need to know before integrating it into your practice.
MCPs reduce, they don't eliminate
Connecting Claude to the official databases drastically reduces the risk of hallucination. But Claude can still misinterpret a text, mischaracterize a situation or miss a jurisprudential nuance. Human verification remains mandatory.
Coverage depends on the databases
JORF, KALI, LODA and JURI cover official French law very broadly. But some collections (legal scholarship, specialized journals, foreign databases) aren't accessible via these connectors. The monitoring is exhaustive on positive law, partial on legal scholarship.
Credit consumption
Daily monitoring consumes Cowork credits. With a Pro subscription ($20/month), the quota can be reached quickly if you stack several monitoring jobs. The Max subscription ($100/month) is recommended for intensive, daily use.
The computer must be turned on
Cowork scheduling depends on your machine. If you close your computer or quit Claude Desktop before the scheduled time, the monitoring doesn't run. No cloud server, no remote execution — it's a local agent.
Human verification mandatory
Claude queries the official sources but the responsibility remains yours. A monitoring digest is not legal advice. Before any use in a client matter, check the references, consult the primary texts and assess the scope of the decisions yourself.
Set up in 15 minutes
If you don't yet have Claude Desktop and the MCP connectors installed, here is the complete procedure. Allow 15 minutes to set everything up from scratch.
Prerequisites
- ▸ A Claude Pro subscription ($20/month) or Max ($100/month). Cowork is included from the Pro plan.
- ▸ Claude Desktop installed on Mac or Windows. Not the browser version.
- ▸ A dedicated working folder on your machine, for example
~/Documents/Claude-Cabinet/Recherches/Veille/.
The 6 steps
Download and install Claude Desktop
Go to claude.com/download. Sign in with your Pro or Max account.
Go to the Cowork tab
At the top of the interface, click the Cowork tab. Authorize access to your dedicated working folder.
Install the legal MCP connectors
Use the Zevra MCP Factory to install the connectors in 5 minutes. For manual installation, see the MCP connector installation guide.
Install at a minimum: JORF, KALI, LODA (Légifrance) and JURI. Add Pappers Justice if you track case law intensively.
Create your monitoring folder
In your working folder, create Recherches/Veille/. That's where Claude will drop the daily digests in the YYYY-MM-DD_nom-veille.md format.
Launch your first monitoring prompt
Copy one of the prompts from section 4, adapt the IDCCs and topics to your practice, and run a first manual execution to validate the result.
Schedule the recurrence
Once the result is validated, add the scheduling instruction (example in section 3) to automate daily execution. Your monitoring runs autonomously.
- The full setup takes 15 minutes: install Claude Desktop, MCP connectors via the MCP Factory, first prompt, scheduling.
- Always do a first manual execution to validate the result before scheduling the automatic recurrence.
- If you get stuck at the connector installation step, check the dedicated guide or join a Zevra webinar.
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