Verification in Legal AI Is a Design Problem
Lawyers remain responsible. Legal AI should make its work easy to check before they sign.
How Mary Helps Family Lawyers in Australia
In Australia, family lawyers and the professionals who work alongside them using Mary report saving 70%+ of the time they used to spend on document review and disclosure.
The duty of disclosure is one of the most powerful tools in a family law matter. It is also where the facts arrive in volume, out of order and from every direction.
Six years of bank statements. A shared drive of text messages and emails. Three rounds of documents produced under subpoena. A Financial Statement that doesn't reconcile with the tax returns. A parenting chronology that lives mostly in one solicitor's head.
Manual fact-finding at this scale is expensive, slow and inconsistent. Untangling complex financial records is often only affordable for the better-resourced party. The financially weaker party can be left unable to pursue a real inequity in the property pool.
What changes with Mary
Mary reads everything in the matter: disclosure, bank statements, communications, court documents and material produced under subpoena. It builds one structured record from all of it.
Key events, transactions and communications are extracted, put in order and linked to the source document and page. Issues are tagged as Mary goes, including financial inconsistencies, parenting concerns, family violence and safety risks, and credibility problems. Need every reference to the second bank account across 4,000 pages? It's one search.
Mary also shows what's missing:
- Gaps in disclosure and incomplete statement periods
- Undisclosed income
- Conflicting accounts of the same event
- Documents referred to but never produced
Those gaps become disclosure requests, subpoenas and letters to your client asking for further documents.
From the same reviewed record, your team can prepare trial affidavits, briefs to counsel, mediation and conciliation conference material, tender bundles and cross-examination notes. Everything is built on one record, so it stays consistent. A solicitor who joins the file in month four starts from where the matter is now, not from a pile of folders.
The money
In most property matters, the financial work takes the longest. Mary answers four questions from the documents.
What they own. Real property, investments, superannuation, trusts and business interests, mapped across correspondence, valuations, trust deeds, shareholder agreements and Financial Statements.
What they spend. Transactions categorised across accounts, cash and ATM withdrawals traced, spending patterns identified and undisclosed accounts flagged. Every transaction is indexed, cited to its page and exportable as a schedule.
What they earn. Salary, bonuses, distributions from trusts and companies, and variable pay, drawn from tax returns, payslips and employment records. You get a fuller income picture for spousal maintenance and child support arguments.
What it's worth. A compiled package for the single expert or forensic accountant, drawn from years of financial statements, tax returns and company records. This step often takes weeks of paralegal time. It should take hours.
Why you can rely on the record
In fact work, a confident error costs more than a missing feature. So how Mary is designed matters as much as what it does.
- Every fact is linked to its source. Each entry links to the original document and page. If it isn't in the documents, it isn't in the output.
- Disputes stay visible. Competing accounts aren't forced into one answer. You see what is supported, what is disputed and what is unconfirmed.
- You stay in control. Proposed changes stay pending until a lawyer approves them. Mary maps the facts. Strategy and legal judgement stay with you.
General-purpose AI assumes its facts are right. Mary shows you whether the facts are complete and accurate before you build anything on them.
Inside the tools you already use
Mary connects with Harvey, Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. Your team can draw on source-linked facts through the platforms, precedents and workflows they already use, without re-explaining the background for every task.
As the team on a matter grows, the work carries on without restarting the review.
How Pages Family Law prepared for trial with Mary
When you're preparing a trial affidavit, you want confidence that you've covered the evidence and can trace every fact back to its source.
Carol Pagès and her team at Pages Family Law used Mary to work through a substantial volume of evidence, including thousands of emails, and prepare their client's case for trial.
What stood out was confidence in what they put forward. The team could go back to the source documents and verify each fact before it went into the affidavit.
The result: the client obtained every order they sought.
"I can't thank you enough for your work in helping us to prepare for that trial. We got every single order our client sought as we were able to put forward the very best evidence from the thousands and thousands of emails. None of this would have been possible (or it would have taken an unthinkable amount of countless more hours) without you and Mary."
— Carol Pagès, Pages Family Law
Mary has quickly become part of how the team works.
"Everyone's addicted to Mary."
"I'm starting to wonder what we did before, to be honest."
And for Carol, it changes what's possible in a contested matter:
"This is such an edge … someone who doesn't have something like this, they've got no chance."
Thank you, Carol, for sharing your experience with Mary.
See it on a matter you recognise
Bring a matter type you know well: a high-value property settlement, a contested spousal maintenance application, or a parenting matter with a messy record of texts and emails. We'll show you what Mary does with it.