Use Mary for commercial litigation

Compare pleadings, agreements and correspondence, then trace disputed events in a chronology. This worked example follows a design-approval dispute between a contractor and client. Adapt the filenames and dates to your processed documents.

Understand a party's case

Start in Ask Mary with a short question:

What does the contractor say was agreed about the design?

Name a pleading when you want its particular account:

Summarise the design-approval allegations in Contractor-claim.pdf. Separate the alleged facts from the relief sought and cite the relevant passages.

Keep allegations attributed to the party making them. A pleading records that party's case; read the underlying passage before using the allegation in another document.

Compare the agreement with the correspondence

Ask “How do the approval emails compare with the signed agreement?” Add the sources and period for a closer comparison:

Compare the approval provisions in Signed-agreement.pdf with Design-approval-correspondence.pdf from 3 to 17 March 2026. Identify the relevant clauses, what each exchange records and any unanswered point. Cite each source.

Check the full provision and any relevant appendix. If the email makes approval conditional on a revised drawing, preserve that condition rather than describing approval as final.

Build the disputed sequence

Open Mary tools → Create chronologies and ask for “A timeline of design approval from 3 to 17 March 2026.” Add participants, events and sources as the columns you need.

Check the date behind each event. A filing date is not necessarily the date of the conduct described in the pleading. Follow Create and edit a chronology, including the Used and Not used source explanations, to check coverage and refine entries.

Compare an account with contrary evidence

Ask a neutral follow-up:

How does Contractor-statement.pdf compare with the design-approval emails from 3 to 17 March 2026?

If needed, ask Mary to separate supporting evidence, conflicting evidence and unresolved points. Distinguish records made at the time from later recollections.

For witness preparation, turn a particular difference into a question linked to the record that raises it. Do not assume the disputed account is already true.

Prepare the next document

Use Review and verify entries to record review decisions in a chronology or tabular review. Then Draft a document, giving Mary the relevant sources and the purpose of the outline you need.

Before sharing, find and export the completed work and inspect the downloaded file.