Chronology
Date, neutral event and the exhibit or source reference for each entry. Unverifiable dates are set out separately. Exports to Word, Excel and PDF.
Complete legal workspace solution, designed in Asia, for practitioners across the common law world
Marshall manages all of your legal matters – advisory, transactions, and disputes.
Marshall is an advanced legal workspace, designed in Hong Kong by senior lawyers with decades of experience, for real-world legal practice. Conduct legal research, aided by thousands of legal resources available through a uniquely designed bespoke Legal Library; draft and manage document changes in transaction documentation; and manage disputes from instructions to completion through a workspace that caters for the life-cycle of a dispute and includes hearing transcription capability.
Marshall sits within a secure and customisable personalised workspace capable of storing and analysing a virtually unlimited volume of documentation, manages Matter deadlines as well as time spent/saved, and provides for collaboration with colleagues, with outputs to Word, Excel and PDF.
Research. Matters. Work product.One workspace
Judgments
Thousands of judgments from throughout the common law world available through Marshall's bespoke Legal Library
Official source judgments
Judgments from official sources throughout the common law world consulted live when conducting research
Legislation and rules
Acts of parliament, ordinances, subsidiary legislation, court rules, arbitral institutional rules and practice directions
Answer flagged for review
Marshall assists; the practitioner reviews the output and remains responsible for it.
How it works
Personalise, create Matter, load documents, and get to work.
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Personalise your workspace
Insert your details, department, title, jurisdictions, practice areas, writing style, analysis and security preferences
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Create a Matter
Create up to 50 Matters by reference to your client's name, project name, court number or other identifier.
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Case information and files
Insert Matter Essentials, upload to the Matter Library, track deadlines, collaborate, create hearing bundles and manage your time
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Create query, attach documents and ask
Name your query, attach Matter Library documents or drag and drop, ask your question (or use Marshall's preset ones) and submit
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Marshall working
A progress bar shows the status, access legal news from Asia, Australia/NZ, Canada and the UK or play a classic game.
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Answer and Output
Your answer is ready, showing the legal reasoning, the sources used and research, use "export & tools", to download to Word, Excel or PDF
To maximise efficiency, you can run up to SIX queries simultaneously
The proposition
Read the authority, not just the answer.
A summary without the paragraph is not something counsel sensibly rely upon. Each proposition Marshall puts forward ends in a numbered marker; the marker opens the authority beneath, at the paragraph relied on.
The phone view shows the authorities and the button that opens the Research and sources panel.
Matters
File documents in categories immediately recognisable to practitioners.
Each Matter has its own library in nine boxes. A single question can read up to 350 of the matter's documents in one pass, and long documents are read properly not sampled.
Work product
Chronology, authorities, submissions, the bundle, key dates and time.
List of Authorities
Maintained by the practitioner, drawn from the matter's authority record. Exports to Word and PDF.
Submissions and skeletons
Drafted from the matter's own pleadings, evidence and authorities, each proposition carrying its source. The practitioner finishes the draft.
Key dates and deadlines
Record key dates and deadlines for each Matter, listed on the front screen. Limitation periods can be inserted.
Hearing bundle
One paginated, indexed PDF with dividers and bookmarks, assembled from the Matter's own libraries.
Marshall for Word
Insert an answer or its List of Authorities at the cursor; check authorities reads the citation and reports accuracy.
Time recording
Record time against the matter as the work is done, and export the record for the fee note. Nothing is timed without being asked.
News and Entertainment
While Marshall is thinking, get the day's legal news from nine jurisdictions and a few quiet pastimes.
Every export is the practitioner's to correct before it goes anywhere.
Legal Library
Marshall's bespoke Legal Library, available to all users.
Thousands of judgments from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Canada and England and Wales, available through Marshall's bespoke Legal Library; Judgments from official live sources; legislation, ordinances, court rules, arbitral institutional rules and practice directions.
Jurisdictions
Developed in Hong Kong for the Asian market, and at home throughout the common law world.
Marshall knows the common-law jurisdictions best. Thousands of judgments and legislation from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom, including from live sources where available.
- Judgments in Legal Library
- Hong Kong · Singapore · Malaysia · New Zealand · Australia · Canada · England and Wales
- Official sources consulted live
- Hong Kong · Singapore · Australia · Canada · United Kingdom
- News, television and entertainment
- Hong Kong · Singapore · Malaysia · United Kingdom · United States · Australia · Canada · New Zealand · Europe
A judgment is held where the source permits; where its terms forbid storage, its data is held for reference only in Marshall's bespoke Legal Library.
A question put in one forum is answered from that forum's material first; decisions from elsewhere are kept, ranked after it and labelled Persuasive.
Origins
Designed by experienced practitioners for real world lawyers.
Marshall was designed in Hong Kong by practitioners with decades of legal experience in the APAC region. The common law they practise is the common law of the jurisdictions Marshall knows, and Marshall was shaped by what survived their review. It is a working aid for practitioners, made by practitioners.
Confidence and control
Separate Matters, privilege and confidentiality. The practitioner decides.
Individual organisations
Material used by a practitioner, firm or chambers is never shared; a Matter is visible only to those authorised.
Privilege travels with the document.
Confidentiality and privilege markings are kept; a matter marked private cannot be shared.
Backed up nightly, encrypted, offsite.
Seven daily and four weekly copies. Hosted with OVH, Singapore.
Marshall assists your work; the practitioner reviews what it produces and remains responsible for it.
Read the subprocessor notice and data retention schedule.
Questions
Frequently asked
More in the help pages
Are the citations verified?
Every answer states how many authorities there are to verify and opens a Research and sources panel listing them. Each proposition is linked to its authority and, where one exists, to the paragraph; a page number is given only as a fallback, and nothing is printed when neither exists. A Citation audit then checks the proposition links, the pinpoints, the supporting passages, how each authority has been treated and whether a practitioner has reviewed it. What Marshall consulted but did not rely on is not cited. Verification remains the practitioner's task, and the tool is built to make that task quick rather than to replace it.
Who is Marshall for, and which jurisdictions does it cover?
Practitioners of law. It knows the common-law jurisdictions best: Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Canada and England and Wales.
Where is our data held?
Marshall is hosted with OVH in the Singapore region. Encrypted backups are taken nightly and held offsite, seven daily and four weekly. Every connection uses HSTS. The subprocessor notice lists each third party that handles data on our behalf.
Can another chambers or firm see our matters?
No. Each set is its own organisation, and material in one is not reachable from another. Within a set, a matter is visible only to the members, pupils and clerks authorised on it. Confidentiality and privilege markings are kept with the document, and a matter marked private cannot be shared. Support staff cannot browse matters in the ordinary course; administrative access is limited to named operators and is audit-logged, and the audit log never records the content of a document or a question.
How are the answers produced?
Answers are written by a large language model that Marshall supplies, with passages retrieved from documents from the Matter Library and the Legal Library.
What is in the Legal Library?
Thousands of judgments and legislation from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom, available through Marshall's bespoke Legal Library, including from live sources where available.
How do we get access, and what does it cost?
Two ways. A practitioner can start any plan from the Plans page with 30 free credits: give a name, a work email and the chambers or firm, confirm the link we email, and sign in. No card is needed to start; one can be added at any time under Billing. A chambers or firm that would rather be set up as a whole can request access instead; we follow up, create the set as its own organisation and an administrator issues accounts. Plans start at US$135 a month for one practitioner and 50 credits, and a credit is roughly one comprehensive research query; chambers plans share a larger allowance across the set. Please do not put passwords or confidential information in either form.
Does it work in Word?
Yes. Marshall for Word is a task-pane add-in. It inserts an answer or its List of Authorities at the cursor, and Check authorities reads the citations in a selected passage and reports whether each one is on the matter's authority record. An unmatched citation is reported as not recorded, never as wrong. The add-in signs in with the same account as the workspace.
Access
Two ways in.
A practitioner can begin alone, today, with 30 free credits. A chambers or firm that would rather be set up as a whole tells us who they are, and we onboard the set.
Start a trial yourself
Choose a plan on the Plans page and give a name, a work email and the chambers or firm. We email a verification link; once it is confirmed the workspace is yours, with 30 free credits and no card.
Choose a plan and start →Ask us to set up the set
Use the form. A person answers: we confirm who you are, talk through the work you would put through Marshall, and create the set as its own organisation, with roles assigned and members signing in at chat.marshall.com.hk.
Ask a question or arrange access
Tell us about your practice. A person will answer you, not a machine.