Legal teams are dealing with increasingly large volumes of digital information as litigation, regulatory investigations and corporate matters generate more documents to review. As those workloads grow, artificial intelligence is becoming part of the effort to identify relevant information, reduce repetitive work and help legal professionals focus on higher value tasks.
The shift is creating opportunities for LegalTech companies that can apply AI to specific parts of the legal workflow rather than treating the technology as a general purpose tool.
Altorney is one of the companies approaching this market through a combination of generative AI and legal talent. Its platform includes MARC, an AI powered document review engine designed to analyze and categorize documents before they reach a traditional hosted review environment.
Altorney combines AI with legal expertise
MARC is designed to evaluate documents across categories including relevance, responsiveness, privilege, personally identifiable information, protected health information, trade secrets and confidentiality.
The company positions the technology as an earlier layer in the eDiscovery workflow. Instead of requiring legal teams to manually process large datasets from the beginning, MARC can analyze documents before they are uploaded to a hosted review platform.
Altorney says the system is available both as software as a service and on premises, giving customers different deployment options depending on their security and operational requirements.
The company was founded by Rachi and Shimmy Messing and also operates a legal talent platform that connects law firms, alternative legal service providers and corporate legal departments with contract attorneys for document review projects.
That creates a model in which automation and human review operate alongside each other. AI can process and categorize large datasets, while legal professionals can focus on documents and decisions that require additional context and judgment.
Altorney says one Fortune 500 customer tested MARC on a matter involving approximately 200,000 documents and reported a 62% reduction in review costs, a 78% reduction in hosting costs and an 86% faster turnaround.
The company has also added ISO/IEC 27001 certification to its existing SOC 2 Type II compliance as it works with sensitive legal information.
The broader opportunity for LegalTech is tied to how much information legal teams must process and how much of that work can be supported by automation without removing human oversight.
For Altorney, that means applying generative AI to an established legal workflow while retaining access to legal professionals when human review remains necessary.
As AI becomes more embedded in LegalTech, companies operating in the sector will increasingly have to demonstrate not only that their systems can process information, but that they can fit into the security, workflow and professional requirements of legal organizations.
