May or ShallLegal note taking with May or Shall
May or Shall is a legal note taking app for lawyers and law students. You highlight what matters in judgments, pleadings, orders and PDFs, and every note keeps its page and paragraph, so it can always be cited and checked.
What legal note taking needs
A note on a case is only useful if it can be traced back to the source. A lawyer has to cite the page and paragraph, show the exact words, and tell an admission apart from an allegation. A general note taking app keeps the words but loses where they came from.
May or Shall starts from the way lawyers already take notes, i.e. they read and they highlight. Legal AI has learned to summarise. But has it learned how lawyers think? Here the judgment of what matters stays with you, and AI drafting follows from your own notes.
How notes work in May or Shall
Every note is a highlighted line, with your own words under it if you want them.
- Highlight a line in a judgment, pleading, order or PDF and it is saved with its page and paragraph.
- Add your own note under any highlighted line.
- Tag notes under legal headings such as Fact, Issue, Admission and Date, or headings of your own.
- Link a note in one document to the note it relates to in another, e.g. an averment in the plaint and the reply to it in the written statement.
- Read all your notes on a case as one Notebook, arranged by heading, by source, by tag or by date.
- Build a list of dates from the dates you mark and export it to Word.
- Plan a draft heading by heading with your notes, and hand the plan to ChatGPT to draft from.
Where you can take notes
May or Shall works as a Chrome extension on court websites, judgments and online PDFs, as a website, as a desktop app for Windows and Mac that saves from any app, and as an app inside ChatGPT. Your notes are the same everywhere.
For law students
Turn what you read into what you write. Highlight cases and readings for a moot, an essay or an exam, keep the paragraph of each line, and build your answer or memorial from your own notes.
Questions
What is the best way to take notes on a judgment?
Highlight the lines that matter, keep the paragraph number of each, and tag each line by what it is, e.g. a fact, an issue or the ratio. May or Shall does this as you read, so every note can be cited later.
Can I take notes on PDFs of pleadings and orders?
Yes. Upload a PDF or open it in Chrome, highlight the lines you need, and each note keeps its page and paragraph.
Is May or Shall a note taking app for lawyers in India?
Yes. It is made by a lawyer in Delhi and works on Indian court websites, judgments and pleadings, as well as any other web page or PDF.
Does the AI write my notes for me?
No. You decide what matters by highlighting it and writing your notes. The AI only drafts from the notes you chose, with each sentence traceable to its source.
Is there a cost?
There are free options. You can sign in and start taking notes right away.
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