A listed Indian company with 1,800 live matters across nine states cannot rely on its panel counsel to email in every change. A bank with tens of thousands of Section 138 NI Act recoveries in district courts across the country cannot manually aggregate Monday updates. An NBFC with exposure in three tribunals plus eight High Courts cannot let a single case slip a deadline. The data layer that makes portfolio monitoring possible has existed for eighteen months. The product wrapper that lets a General Counsel use it directly, in their own words, in their own Claude window, now also exists. This post is the playbook.
The one CSV you need
Five columns, nothing more.
| Column | Example |
|---|---|
| CNR | DLHC010095422019 |
| Matter | XYZ v. Petitioner State |
| Exposure (INR) | 2,50,00,000 |
| Panel Counsel | Firm A |
| Business Owner | CFO office |
Upload the CSV into Claude Desktop. Point Claude at the eCourtsIndia MCP. You now have everything needed for the weekly report.
The Monday morning prompt
Take the CSV I just uploaded. 1. For each CNR, call get_case_with_latest_order. 2. Flag any case with a new order since last Monday. 3. Flag any case where the next hearing is this week. 4. Flag any case that has moved to DISPOSED, DISMISSED, or ALLOWED. 5. Total outstanding exposure by panel counsel. 6. Produce a five-line executive summary, then a full table. 7. Save to /board/litigation/WK17 as a Word document.
Ten minutes to a complete Monday view. No legal ops engineer required.
The MCP tools doing the work
bulk_refresh_casesto pick up any change on every CNR.monitor_portfolioto set up standing alerts.get_case_with_latest_orderfor the narrative text of what happened.get_order_ai_analysisfor directions, stay conditions, deposit orders.
The board slide
The output from the weekly prompt is the raw material for a one-page board slide. Three things a board actually cares about: exposure movement week over week, disposals and favourable outcomes, cases that need sign-off. The rest is noise.
Governance and controls
Three boundaries matter for a General Counsel.
- Audit trail. Every API call is logged. Export the log quarterly.
- Access control. Keys are user-scoped. Revoke on offboarding.
- Data residency. Court records are public. The MCP serves public data. Nothing leaves your stack that was not already on the eCourts portal.
When to pair with a CLM
If your organisation has contracts as complex as its litigation, a contract lifecycle management product remains worth buying. Provakil, SpotDraft, and Lexplosion all ship reasonable options. The MCP is the live data feed. Your CLM is the system of record for pleadings, invoices, and panel counsel management. These are complements, not substitutes. Our migration piece for product teams goes into the architectural split.
What this means for GCs
You can get a board-ready view of your litigation portfolio every Monday at 9 am, in ten minutes, for the price of an enterprise API tier. Start with a slice. Thirty matters. One region. One week. If the answer works, scale to the full portfolio. See our MCP 101 guide for install. For Section 138 portfolios specifically, read our cheque bounce tracking post.
If your Monday board report still relies on Friday emails from eleven firms, it is not a report. It is a rumour.
Further reading: Case Status Dictionary, Case Type Encyclopedia.