legal-claim-economics

When to Use

• A lawyer, funder, or firm wants to model whether a claim or portfolio is economically viable.
• The question involves damages, probability of success, fee arrangements, ATE, adverse costs, funder return, or recovery waterfall.
• The user needs sensitivity or scenario analysis rather than a single best-case number.

This skill models economics. It does not recommend whether to bring, settle, fund, or abandon a claim.

Audience and Work Shape

Audience: litigation partners, litigation-finance counsel, funding analysts, and legally supervised team members with enough quantitative fluency to review assumptions and formulas.

Work shape: bounded transactional calculation in calculation_mode; accretive judgment in specification_mode. The skill models assumptions and scenarios, but the responsible lawyer or funder decides what action to take.

Legal Failure Modes