What range do your assumptions imply?
No calculator can tell you what your case is worth. What the math CAN do is take your assumptions — damages, win chance, what trial still costs each side — and show the settlement range those assumptions imply, live as you move the dials.
All free tools →This is the classic litigation bargaining zone from the law-and-economics literature (the frame behind Prescott & Spier's work on settlement, and the same structure the Juricratic engine's settlement-zone module uses). A rational plaintiff accepts any offer above their expected trial outcome minus what trial still costs them; a rational defendant pays anything below expected exposure plus their own remaining costs. The gap between those two numbers exists precisely because trial is expensive for both sides — that gap is the zone.
The win-chance slider is deliberately labeled YOUR assumption. It is a dial, not a prediction — the honest use of this tool is to sweep it and watch how fast the zone moves, which tells you how much your negotiation posture depends on a number nobody actually knows.
The risk-aversion slider shaves up to 25% off the plaintiff's expected verdict before costs, reflecting that a risk-averse party accepts less than the actuarial value to avoid the gamble. All computation runs in your browser; your numbers never touch our servers.
- How much is my case worth?
- No tool can tell you that, and you should distrust any that claims to. Case value depends on liability facts, damages proof, venue, and the parties' appetites for risk. This calculator inverts the question: you supply the assumptions, it shows the settlement range those assumptions imply.
- Why is there a range instead of a single number?
- Because trial costs both sides money. The plaintiff's walk-away floor sits below the defendant's walk-away ceiling whenever combined remaining costs are positive — any number between them leaves both sides better off than trying the case, under your dials.
- What does the risk-aversion slider do?
- It models a plaintiff who prefers a sure payment over a gamble with the same expected value — shaving up to 25% off the expected verdict before subtracting costs. Individuals facing one case are usually risk-averse; institutions that litigate in volume are closer to risk-neutral.
- Is my data stored anywhere?
- No. All math runs in your browser and your inputs never leave your device. The shareable URL encodes your dials only if you choose to copy and send it.
- Is this legal advice or a prediction?
- Neither. It is a simulation artifact: arithmetic on the assumptions you chose. It creates no attorney-client relationship, and no output here is a probability of anything happening in the real world.
This tool is a simulation artifact, not legal advice, and creates no attorney–client relationship. Every probability-like input is your assumption — a dial, not a prediction. Your inputs never leave your browser. Verify all deadlines and figures against the rules and orders of your court.
This is one dial. Your case has fifty.
Juricratic models your whole matter as a solvable game — every motion, every deadline, every settlement posture — and shows how the picture moves when the assumptions do.
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