Skill

legalcode-litigation-budget

Create phase-based litigation budgets using LEDES/UTBMS task codes with cost benchmarking, variance analysis, and alternative fee arrangement modeling. Use when building matter budgets for civil litigation, arbitration, or regulatory proceedings; estimating legal spend by phase (assessment, pleadings, discovery, trial, appeal); comparing proposed fees against market benchmarks; structuring alternative fee arrangements (fixed, capped, phased, success-based); forecasting total litigation exposure; or preparing budget submissions for outside counsel guidelines compliance. Jurisdiction-agnostic with localization markers for US, UK, and EU rate environments. Integrates with legalcode-early-case-assessment for matter framing and legalcode-damages-calculation for exposure modeling.