Skill

legalcode-damages-calculation

Structure and calculate damages across economic, non-economic, punitive, and statutory categories for civil litigation, arbitration, and settlement negotiations. Use when quantifying harm, building damages models, preparing expert briefings, evaluating settlement ranges, or supporting early case assessment with defensible exposure analysis. Covers lost profits, consequential damages, diminution in value, pain and suffering, emotional distress, punitive/exemplary multipliers, statutory penalties, and fee-shifting. Jurisdiction-agnostic with [JURISDICTION-SPECIFIC] markers for US federal/state, England & Wales, and Australia. Integrates with legalcode-early-case-assessment for case-level exposure modeling and legalcode-brief-analyzer for damages-section persuasiveness review.