Should we bring the claim? What happens if we defend it?
Claimant-side and respondent-side assessments should not be mirror images. They ask different questions, carry different downside risks and often require different settlement or procedural strategies.
Test whether the dispute deserves the cost, management attention and procedural commitment that formal proceedings will require.
Understand exposure early enough to preserve evidence, identify counterclaims and decide whether to contest, resolve or narrow the dispute.
- Test whether the dispute deserves the cost, management attention and procedural commitment that formal proceedings will require.
When the wrong decision is more expensive than the dispute.
The decision layer is particularly valuable in complex, cross-border or relationship-sensitive disputes where “fight or settle” is too simplistic.
Assess remedies, governance exposure, relationship value and exit routes.
Separate entitlement, causation, evidence and quantum before full expert spend.
Balance monetary claims against continuity, replacement and commercial dependency.
AI tools provide a preliminary decision-support layer. Human and institutional review adds context, judgment and routing where the matter warrants it.
Five-factor case strength, evidence, counterclaim and enforcement diagnostic.
AI-assisted identification of inconsistencies, gaps and risk flags across dispute documents.
Map recognition and enforcement prospects across 170+ jurisdictions.
A fundable claim is more than a strong claim.
Funders examine merits, economics, duration, budget, respondent credit and enforcement. An early Funding Readiness Assessment can help organise those questions. The live UNIONE™ Funding Marketplace itself sits further downstream: the current marketplace model begins after a claimant files a UNIONE™ case and an ERR enforceability score is produced.
Early assessment of merits, economics, budget, respondent and recovery pathway.
Claimant and counsel decide whether formal proceedings justify the expected economics.
The claim enters the institutional process under the selected procedure.
The answer is a route - not merely a score.
An assessment should tell the organisation what to do next.
Continue direct negotiation, cure performance issues, amend the relationship or defer formal process where the dispute does not justify escalation.
Proceed into binding adjudication under the appropriate UNIONE™ procedural track where the dispute requires determination.
Where urgency exists, consider emergency or interim relief and preserve evidence, assets or contractual rights before the merits process.
What a serious dispute decision requires.
A full institutional assessment goes beyond a simple merits score. The commercial decision can depend on evidence, quantum, counterclaims, urgency, cost, assets, settlement dynamics and the practical value of an eventual award.
Contractual position, alleged breach, principal defences and core legal architecture.
Documents, notices, contemporaneous records, witness dependence and evidential gaps.
Claim value, recoverable heads, causation, mitigation and realistic economic upside.
Different questions need different assessments.
The family can range from a quick technology-assisted diagnostic to a deeper institutional assessment for a board, General Counsel, claimant, respondent or funding decision.
Integrated assessment of merits, evidence, quantum, counterclaim risk, enforcement and strategic route.
Independent scrutiny before significant money and management attention are committed to a claim.
Assess likely exposure, counterclaim potential, documentary weaknesses and response routes.
An institution should be capable of helping a party decide not to arbitrate.
Assessment is deliberately a decision layer, not a fifth formal stage. It gives businesses a route to test merits, evidence, counterclaim, enforcement and commercial alternatives before committing money and management attention to a full proceeding.
Process selection can become synonymous with “how do we arbitrate?” once a dispute reaches counsel.
UNIONE™ separates the decision from the procedure: assess first, then resolve, arbitrate, protect urgently or stop.
- Assessment is deliberately a decision layer, not a fifth formal stage. It gives businesses a route to test merits, evidence, counterclaim, enforcement and commercial alternatives before committing money and management attention to a full proceeding.