Arguing from Notes Instead of Paper: One Index Across the Plaint, the Reply and the Judgments

Paper is in the order it was filed. Your argument is in the order that persuades. Every time you move from one to the other you lose seconds in front of the bench, and the more documents there are, the more seconds you lose.

1. Bring every document of the matter into one case: PDFs from your files, your own cloud, or downloaded from the court’s own site.
2. Highlight the lines you will rely on and snip any table, plan or photograph.
3. Add a short handwritten or typed note to each mark: what it proves, in your own words.
4. Connect the points that answer each other across files, for example a paragraph of the plaint and the denial in the written statement.
5. Put the marks in the order you will argue, then rehearse once with the timer.

In Speak mode in ArguLinx, Next and Previous move you through your points in your order, and the right page is on screen with each one. When the bench asks “where does it say that?”, the card knows its file and page. When you need something you did not mark, one search runs across every document, note and scan in the case.

ArguLinx never changes your original PDFs and does not host your files. Your documents and notes stay on your tablet, and a backup goes to your own Google Drive, iCloud Drive or other cloud only when you ask for it. There is no storage allowance to run out of.

ArguLinx is a tool for organising your own documents. Always check search results, scans and downloaded documents against the official record.