Legal document review is a resource-intensive part of litigation, investigations and regulatory matters, particularly when teams must identify privileged material, confidential information and records relevant to a case. Altorney is targeting that challenge with MARC, its document intelligence platform, now deployed by Canadian law firm McCarthy Tétrault.
The firm is using MARC to support document analysis across litigation, investigations, antitrust, tax and data breach matters. So far, its applications have included relevance and privilege review, as well as the identification of personal information.
Unlike tools that return classifications without explaining them, MARC provides a rationale for its coding decisions. This allows lawyers to validate the results and apply their own legal judgment to complex matters.
Integrating document intelligence into legal workflows
MARC can be used before documents enter a review platform, helping legal teams reduce the volume of material that proceeds to subsequent review. It can also analyze documents already hosted in review systems, including for quality-control purposes.
The platform can be deployed in a client’s cloud environment, a client-controlled data center or Altorney’s secure hosted environment, offering different options for handling sensitive information.
“We are using MARC for relevance and privilege review, issue coding, identification of personal and confidential information across general litigation, investigations, and data breach matters,” said Susan Wortzman, partner at McCarthy Tétrault and president of the firm’s e-discovery division, MT>3.
Wortzman said the platform’s detailed explanations make it easier for lawyers to validate coding decisions and spend more time applying complex legal judgment. She also pointed to the security of the firm’s private environment and the cost savings for clients.
McCarthy Tétrault has more than 800 lawyers serving Canadian and international clients. The firm has emphasized innovation and the evolution of legal service delivery as part of its client-service approach.
Shimmy Messing, CEO and co-founder of Altorney, said the deployment reflects the need to help legal teams make sense of large document collections earlier in the review process.
The company’s stated goal is to support lawyers with faster, more transparent analysis while leaving legal decisions in the hands of professionals.
