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Legal tech company Mary Technology has unveiled a new type of legal tech to address “fact chaos” – something the provider says is a widespread problem.
Mary Technology has officially launched its fact management system into the legal profession, a new legal tech category addressing “fact chaos”.
Speaking at the Legal Innovation & Tech Fest in Sydney last week, Mary Technology co-founder Daniel Lord-Doyle (pictured) outlined what “fact chaos” is and how widespread the problem is becoming in the legal profession.
“This launch marks the creation of an entirely new legal technology category, designed to directly overcome structural limitations of traditional document management and manual data handling,” he said.
Fact chaos is where crucial legal information becomes lost within huge amounts of disorganised documents, causing inefficiencies, increased risk, and frustration for lawyers and their clients. Litigation teams, in particular, often handle thousands of disorganised documents – discovery materials, emails, memos, and more – making it easy to lose track of critical information.
Mary Technology’s answer to this issue, according to Lord-Doyle, is a “fact management system” and is already being leveraged by firms for “real-world results”.
The fact management system (FMS) directly addresses fact chaos by automatically converting large amounts of unstructured data (such as contracts, emails, transcripts, and internal communications) into a structured, searchable chronology. The system also integrates with existing practice and document management systems (PMS and DMS).
“An FMS helps legal teams by automatically extracting, organising, and clearly presenting key facts from documents. This significantly reduces the time lawyers spend manually reviewing documents or entering information, allowing them to quickly identify important details, make better strategic decisions, and produce more accurate legal documents. As a result, law firms save time, reduce errors, and achieve better case outcomes,” Lord-Doyle told Lawyers Weekly.
“Connecting the FMS directly to a firm’s existing software reduces duplicated work and makes sure the same accurate facts appear consistently everywhere. Lawyers no longer have to waste time switching between different applications or updating multiple sets of facts. Instead, essential information is easy to access and rely upon within the software lawyers already use every day, saving them time and effort.”
After organising key documents, the system extracts and links key facts back to their sources, giving lawyers a dynamic timeline that reveals inconsistencies or gaps in minutes rather than weeks – freeing up time to focus on higher-value tasks as the role of lawyers changes.
“As the fact management system increasingly handles fact organisation, litigation lawyers spend less time on routine data sorting and more time analysing cases, identifying strengths or weaknesses earlier, and building persuasive arguments based on clear and easily accessible facts,” Lord-Doyle said.
“As these systems improve further, lawyers will continue to focus more on tasks requiring human judgement, such as providing strategic advice to clients, developing complex arguments, and advocacy in court. Automation will handle more of the repetitive, organisational tasks, leaving lawyers to concentrate on what they do best: thinking deeply about cases and guiding their clients effectively.”
This also follows the release of Mary Technology’s whitepaper, Building the Future of Law: A Legal Data Infrastructure, which discusses the limitations of traditional data practices and explores how structured legal data will enhance AI performance and reduce risk across legal workflows.
According to the report, even industry-leading legal AI tools can miss crucial details – one example from the report showed a top-performing AI missing three key facts when generating a chronology from a “very short, five-page decision”. In the legal industry, omissions at this level pose serious risks and are simply not acceptable. According to Mary Technology, a fundamentally new approach is required, and its FMS will ensure that critical facts are never overlooked.
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Lauren is a journalist at Lawyers Weekly and graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism from Macleay College. Prior to joining Lawyers Weekly, she worked as a trade journalist for media and travel industry publications and Travel Weekly. Originally born in England, Lauren enjoys trying new bars and restaurants, attending music festivals and travelling. She is also a keen snowboarder and pre-pandemic, spent a season living in a French ski resort.
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