# Litigation risk assessment
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Evaluate litigation risk across four dimensions — legal merit, factual strength, damages exposure, and reputational/strategic risk — to produce risk matrices…

Evaluate litigation risk across four dimensions — legal merit, factual strength, damages exposure, and reputational/strategic risk — to produce risk matrices with confidence-weighted probability assessments, cost-benefit analysis across three resolution branches (litigate, settle, mediate), and strategic recommendations. Use when deciding whether to file or defend a claim, re-evaluating litigation posture at a case milestone, advising a board or executive team on litigation exposure, preparing for settlement negotiations, or building a litigation budget with risk-adjusted spend scenarios. Supports pre-litigation (demand letter stage), early litigation (pre-discovery), mid-case (post-discovery), and late-case (trial approaching) assessment phases. Jurisdiction-agnostic with [JURISDICTION-SPECIFIC] markers for US federal/state, England & Wales, Australia, and EU commercial courts.

Use this skill to produce a structured, defensible four-dimensional litigation risk assessment that supports go/no-go decisions, settlement posture, board-level reporting, and litigation budget management across the full lifecycle of a civil dispute. **Covers:** - Legal merit assessment: element-by-element claim and defense analysis, burden of proof, threshold issues - Factual strength scoring: evidence quality, witness credibility, document coverage, discovery risk - Damages exposure modeling: expected value ranges, treble/punitive multipliers, fee-shifting, mitigation - Reputational and strategic risk: media profile, precedent sensitivity, leadership credibility, collateral harm - Integrated four-dimensional risk matrix with confidence-weighted composite score - Three-branch cost-benefit analysis: litigate to judgment, settle now, mediate - Sensitivity analysis on key assumptions (probability, damages, costs) - Strategic recommendation with conditional triggers and escalation paths - Pre-litigation through late-case reassessment workflows - Jurisdiction-agnostic baseline with US/UK/AU/EU localization markers **Does not:** - Draft pleadings, demand letters, or settlement agreements (see `legalcode-complaint-drafter`, `legalcode-settlement-negotiation`) - Perform detailed damages calculation (see `legalcode-damages-calculation` for granular methodology) - Replace Early Case Assessment (see `legalcode-early-case-assessment` for element-level merits depth) - Provide legal advice or substitute for licensed counsel - Cover criminal proceedings, regulatory enforcement actions (different frameworks), or arbitration-specific procedures **Related skills:** - `legalcode-early-case-assessment` — Deep element-level merits analysis; feeds into Step ...

## Jurisdictions

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