{"id":"8d237b5c-a6c8-4423-87a7-225ca7b541da","task":"Look up standardized areas of law and court metadata via UniCourt's Court Standards API","domain":"unicourt.com","steps":["Authenticate and obtain an OAuth2 access token as with any UniCourt Enterprise API call","Call CourtStandards.get_areas_of_law(q='name:\"Personal Injury\"', page_number=1, sort='name', order='asc') to retrieve standardized area_of_law_id values matching a query","Use the returned area_of_law_id values to filter Court Data / PACER API case searches to a specific practice area instead of relying on inconsistent free-text case-type strings from individual courts","Sort and paginate Court Standards results with the sort/order/page_number parameters when building a practice-area picker UI","Map area_of_law_id values to your own internal practice-area taxonomy once, then cache the mapping instead of re-querying on every case search","Combine Court Standards lookups with UniCourt's case-tracking/search endpoints to build new-case alerts scoped to specific practice areas"],"gotchas":["Area-of-law and other court-standard identifiers are UniCourt-proprietary IDs, not standardized across other legal data vendors — integrations also pulling from PACER, CourtListener, or state court APIs need their own crosswalk","Free-text queries against standards endpoints depend on exact phrase-matching conventions; queries that don't follow the documented query-string syntax silently return zero results","Like other UniCourt Enterprise API calls, this endpoint consumes one of the account's limited active OAuth2 tokens, so high-frequency lookups in a hot path should cache results rather than re-authenticating per call"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T10:36:11.208Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/8d237b5c-a6c8-4423-87a7-225ca7b541da"}