MARC brings explainable document intelligence to early-stage review, helping legal teams find what matters, understand why it matters, and act sooner
BALTIMORE, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Altorney today announced that the leading business law firm in Canada, McCarthy Tétrault, has deployed MARC, Altorney's document intelligence platform, for document review and analysis across litigation, investigations, anti-trust, tax and data breach matters. MARC gives legal teams explainable analysis across complex document populations, telling them not just what matters, but why.
McCarthy Tétrault is Canada's premier, full-service law firm, with more than 800 lawyers delivering integrated legal and business services to Canadian and international clients. The firm has long positioned innovation and the reimagining of legal service delivery as central to its client-service approach.
MARC is a document intelligence platform that helps legal teams make sense of complex information quickly, without losing control of their data. MARC classifies relevance, responsiveness, privilege, personal information, trade secrets, and other matter-specific categories, while it explains the reasoning behind each result instead of asking teams to take it on faith. Built by Altorney, MARC gives legal teams a faster, more transparent way to work through complex matters without compromising security. At McCarthy Tétrault, MARC has thus far been applied to privilege, personal information, and relevance analysis, supporting general litigation, investigations, and data breach response.
"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 MT>3, the Firm's e-discovery division. "The MARC team is highly responsive and works closely with our MT>3 team to develop bespoke workflows for highly challenging and unique matters, working within high pressure deadlines. MARC provides detailed rationale for every coding decision, making it easy for lawyers to validate its accuracy and spend their time applying complex legal judgment. Throughout, all data remains secure within our own private environment, giving our clients confidence that their data is securely managed. The cost savings are impactful for our clients."
Unlike point solutions limited to a single stage of the workflow, MARC can run either before documents enter a review platform or on data that is already hosted in review platforms. This flexibility allows teams to introduce explainable analysis upstream, potentially limiting the volume of irrelevant material that enters downstream review, while also supporting quality-control workflows on data already in review. MARC can be deployed in a client cloud, a client-controlled data center or Altorney's secure hosted environment.
"We built MARC to give legal teams better intelligence wherever their data resides," said Shimmy Messing, CEO and Co-Founder at Altorney. "McCarthy Tétrault's active use of MARC for first-pass review reflects the need to turn large, complex document populations into informed legal action earlier in the workflow. Our goal is not to replace legal judgment; it is to give exceptional legal teams a faster, more explainable foundation for applying it."
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