This blog is a preview of Mary Technology’s whitepaper, ‘Building the Future of Law: A Legal Data Infrastructure’.
The full whitepaper can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
Executive Summary:
Law firms waste thousands of hours wrestling with scattered emails, contracts, and evidence—leading to what we call “Fact Chaos.” Learn how a Fact Management System (FMS) automatically centralises and verifies your critical legal facts, cutting review hours in half and drastically reducing errors.
The Problem: Fragmented Data & AI Misstatements
Legal data is more abundant and complex than ever—buried across folders, email chains, practice management systems, and more. Even advanced AI solutions (like retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG as it is known by) struggle with messy data. In fact, leading legal AI tools misstate or omit key facts in 17–33% of complex queries (Magesh et al., 2024), highlighting the limitations of purely document-centric workflows.
Introducing a Legal Fact Layer
A Legal Fact Layer acts like a knowledge graph dedicated to law—pulling out the key entities (dates, parties, obligations, clauses) from your documents and storing them in one verified, easily searchable repository. By continuously labelling and updating each fact, you eliminate version confusion and give AI the clean data it needs to work reliably. Traditional document-centric systems store but don't structure facts, leaving firms vulnerable. A Legal Fact Layer doesn't just organise—it actively verifies and updates your critical information.
How Our Fact Management System (FMS) Works
- Automatic Document Ingestion: The FMS de-duplicates and organises documents the moment they enter your system.
- Intelligent Fact Extraction: Parties, dates, and clauses are instantly tagged, linked, and verified.
- Centralised Repository: Changes are tracked in real time, ensuring everyone sees the latest, most accurate information.
- Enhanced AI Performance: High-quality facts dramatically reduce AI hallucinations, saving you from re-checking every answer.
Real-World Example: Slashing Review Time
Consider a litigation lawyer managing a complicated commercial dispute. Without an FMS, they risk missing decisive details buried in contradictory files. But with a Legal Fact Layer, they instantly generate a comprehensive timeline, verify each date from the original source, and get automatic alerts when new evidence challenges existing facts—cutting manual review time by 50–60%.
Key Benefits at a Glance
- Save Up to 60% of Manual Review Time – Quickly locate verified facts and stop wasting hours on repetitive document checks.
- Eliminate Costly Oversights – Minimise the risk of litigation errors by ensuring critical facts are never missed or misrepresented.
- Resolve Cases Faster – Instantly generate accurate timelines and proactively identify conflicting facts, streamlining your workflow from start to finish.
- Maximise AI Reliability – Feed your AI tools consistently structured and verified data, dramatically reducing inaccuracies and "hallucinations.
Conclusion
Modern AI tools can only be as good as your data. By adopting Mary Technology’s FMS—and harnessing a Legal Fact Layer—you ensure your firm has a dependable single source of truth, reducing errors, speeding up cases, and raising client confidence.
Want to learn more?
Download our whitepaper, Building the Future of Law: A Legal Data Infrastructure, to learn why purely document-centric approaches are now outdated in the AI era—and how high-stakes law firms can’t afford to miss critical details. Download the whitepaper now to understand exactly why document-centric approaches fall short, and learn precisely how a structured Legal Fact Layer transforms accuracy and productivity.
