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Legal AI has learned to summarise. But has it learned how lawyers think? May or Shall starts from your judgment: you read and highlight what matters, and AI drafting follows from your own lines.
Why it starts with the lawyer
Most legal AI tools read the whole document and decide on their own what matters. Faster summaries and automated drafts do not necessarily produce better legal reasoning, and AI can still misread context or miss what matters.
The craft of law lies in judgment, i.e. reading, identifying what matters, spotting contradictions, connecting facts and deciding how they shape an argument. One fundamental way lawyers exercise that judgment is that they read and they highlight. That is where May or Shall begins.
What you can do with it
It works on judgments, pleadings, orders, contracts and evidence, whether they are on a website, in a PDF or in another app.
- Highlight a passage and it keeps its page and paragraph, so you can always go back to the source.
- Tag lines under legal headings such as Fact, Issue, Admission and Date, or headings of your own.
- Link a line in one document to the line it relates to in another, e.g. an averment in the plaint and the reply to it in the written statement.
- Build a list of dates from the dates you mark and export it to Word.
- Let ChatGPT draft from your own highlighted lines, with each sentence traceable to its source.
Where it works
May or Shall is a Chrome extension for web pages and online PDFs, a website, a desktop app for Windows and Mac that saves from any app, and an app inside ChatGPT. Your highlights are the same everywhere.
Questions
Does May or Shall decide what is important in a document?
No. You decide what matters by highlighting it. The AI only drafts from the lines you chose, and each line keeps its page and paragraph.
Can I make a list of dates from a set of pleadings?
Yes. Mark the dates as you read and May or Shall builds a list of dates from them, which can be exported to Word.
Which AI does it draft with?
It drafts with ChatGPT through the May or Shall app inside ChatGPT, using only the lines you highlighted.
Does it work with PDFs and court websites?
Yes. The Chrome extension works on web pages and PDFs opened in the browser, and the desktop app saves from other apps on Windows and Mac.
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