Ms McCloy and a team of eight project managers, solicitors and legal professionals will provide large-scale document review and expert eDiscovery services to nearshore law firms and support specialist legal teams in the delivery of legal services to clients.

A qualified solicitor in Northern Ireland, Ireland and England and Wales, Ms McCloy recently joined the firm from the alternative legal services group of a large global law firm.

She specialises in commercial litigation and legal technology, with experience conducting large scale document reviews, including eDisclosure exercises, regulatory investigations and data subject access requests (DSARs).

Ms McCloy said: “I am pleased to join Cleaver Fulton Rankin and lead the new legal technology group launch. The addition of this new service offering will add to the already strong reputation the company and its people have in the market.”

She added: “Discovery is probably one of the most difficult, yet vitally important, aspects of litigation. It can be an onerous process.

“However, we can use the technology’s advanced analytics and search filtering technology to conduct early case assessment, identify patterns and trends in the documents at the outset and reduce the document pool to a much smaller, more manageable set for review.

“This presents the client with a high quality, more efficient offering in terms of time and cost.”

Managing director Jonathan Forrester said: “We saw an opportunity to create efficiencies and support the modernisation of legal services. We are the first indigenous law firm that has decided to take this step.

“After a great deal of hard work, we have set up our legal technology group, headed by Kerry, our innovation and legal technology director. She has hit the ground running, and we are confident the group will open up significant opportunities for us.”

He added: “Innovation and legal tech have, undoubtedly, enabled us to streamline our services and grow our business. It is at the heart of our company.”