Retrieve a matter

GET/legal/{connection_id}/matter/{id}

Parameters

Returns

Response field	Type	Required	Description
`id`	string	No
`created_at`	string (date-time)	No	(ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)
`updated_at`	string (date-time)	No	(ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)
`name`	string	No
`number`	string	No	the firm's display/matter number
`description`	string	No
`status`	enum	No	Values: `PENDING`, `OPEN`, `CLOSED`, `OTHER`
`billing_method`	enum	No	Values: `HOURLY`, `FLAT_FEE`, `CONTINGENCY`, `OTHER`
`practicearea_id`	string	No	pointer to the Legal Practicearea object
`stage`	string	No	the matter stage name
`contact_ids`	string[]	No	CRM Contacts that are clients on this matter
`company_ids`	string[]	No	CRM Companies that are clients on this matter
`parties`	LegalParty[]	No	all people and organizations related to this matter, with their role
`parties[].contact_id`	string	No	pointer to a CRM Contact
`parties[].company_id`	string	No	pointer to a CRM Company
`parties[].role`	enum	No	Values: `CLIENT`, `OPPOSING_PARTY`, `OPPOSING_COUNSEL`, `CO_COUNSEL`, `WITNESS`, `EXPERT`, `JUDGE`, `REFERRER`, `OTHER`
`parties[].description`	string	No	the vendor's free-text relationship description
`user_id`	string	No	HR Employee who is the responsible attorney (reference to HrisEmployee)
`originating_user_id`	string	No	HR Employee who is the originating attorney (reference to HrisEmployee)
`user_ids`	string[]	No	other HR Employees assigned to this matter
`client_reference`	string	No	the client's own reference number for this matter
`currency`	string	No
`is_billable`	boolean	No
`opened_at`	string (date-time)	No	(ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)
`closed_at`	string (date-time)	No	(ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)
`pending_at`	string (date-time)	No	(ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)
`statute_of_limitations_at`	string (date-time)	No	(ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)
`metadata`	LegalMetadata[]	No	custom field values
`metadata[].id`	string	No
`metadata[].slug`	string	No
`metadata[].value`	object	No
`metadata[].namespace`	string	No
`metadata[].format`	enum	No	Values: `TEXT`, `NUMBER`, `DATE`, `BOOLEAN`, `FILE`, `TEXTAREA`, `SINGLE_SELECT`, `MULTIPLE_SELECT`, `MEASUREMENT`, `PRICE`, `YES_NO`, `CURRENCY`, `URL`
`metadata[].extra_data`	object	No

Errors

Errors return the HTTP status code and a JSON body with statusCode, error (the short label) and message (a human-readable detail).

{
  "statusCode": 429,
  "error": "Too Many Requests",
  "message": "Too many requests to unified.to API; max requests per minute: N"
}

Status	Error	Meaning
`400`	Bad Request	The request was malformed or failed validation.
`401`	Unauthorized	The connection is likely broken; re-authorize it.
`403`	Forbidden	The connection is missing permissions or scopes.
`404`	Not Found	The requested resource does not exist.
`429`	Too Many Requests	Rate limit exceeded (see the two sources below).
`500`	Internal Server Error	An unexpected error occurred.
`501`	Not Implemented	Not supported by this integration.

Errors from the underlying integration pass through: the integration's status comes back as ours (429, 401, 403, 404 or 5xx), usually with its message. When the integration's error body is unclear, Unified extracts what it can and returns a clearer message.

429 Too Many Requests

A 429 has two possible sources:

The integration's own rate limit, passed through.
Unified's workspace limit: a rolling 60 seconds, set by plan, with the message Too many requests to unified.to API; max requests per minute: N.

const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://api.unified.to/legal/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/matter/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8',
  headers: {
    authorization: 'bearer .....'
  },
  params: {
    fields: '',
    raw: '',
  }
};

const results = await axios.request(options);

Code Samples

Node.js SDK

import { UnifiedTo } from '@unified-api/typescript-sdk';

const sdk = new UnifiedTo({
    security: {
        jwt: '<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>',
    },
});

const connectionId = '5de520f96e439b002043d8dc';

const id = '1234';

const results = await sdk.legal.getLegalMatter({ connectionId, id, 
    fields: '',
    raw: '',
 });

Node.js (axios)

const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://api.unified.to/legal/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/matter/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8',
  headers: {
    authorization: 'bearer .....'
  },
  params: {
    fields: '',
    raw: '',
  }
};

const results = await axios.request(options);

Java

AsyncHttpClient client = new DefaultAsyncHttpClient();

client.prepare("GET", "https://api.unified.to/legal/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/matter/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=")
  .setHeader("accept", "application/json")
  .setHeader("authorization", ".....")
  .execute()
  .toCompletableFuture()
  .thenAccept(System.out::println)
  .join();

client.close();

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

url := `https://api.unified.to/legal/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/matter/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=

req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

req.Header.Add("accept", "application/json")
req.Header.Add("authorization", ".....")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

Python

import requests

url = "https://api.unified.to/legal/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/matter/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw="

headers = {
    "accept": "application/json",
    "authorization": "....."
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

PHP

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.unified.to/legal/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/matter/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "accept: application/json",
    "authorization: ....."
  ],
]);

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://api.unified.to/legal/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/matter/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["accept"] = 'application/json'
request["authorization"] = '....'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.unified.to/legal/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/matter/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=' \
  --header 'accept: application/json' \
  --header 'authorization: .....'

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