What is it worth?
The probable outcome, weighed by likelihood across the live issues — not the headline claim, and not the worst case either side fears.
For businesses
A disciplined view of legal exposure.
For in-house counsel, founders and finance and operations leaders managing exposure: Tochelet brings the same rigor to a dispute that you bring to any other decision — a clear expected value, a rational settlement range, and the cost of continuing.
The premise
Decisions about disputes are business decisions.
An open dispute is an item on the balance sheet long before it reaches a courtroom. It carries a probable cost, a likely timeline, and a range of outcomes — and like any other exposure, it deserves to be weighed on the numbers, not on conviction.
Most matters are still managed on instinct: a sense that the company is right, a reluctance to be seen to concede, a fee estimate that drifts upward quietly. That is not a basis for committing capital and management attention over months or years. The sounder question is the one your finance function would ask of any other risk — what is this likely to cost, how long will it take, and what is the realistic value of continuing versus resolving now?
Tochelet exists to answer that question with discipline. We place the expected value of continuing — the claim, weighed by likelihood, net of the cost and time to get there — against a rational settlement range, so the economic choice is visible rather than assumed. The decision stays with you and your counsel; what changes is that it is made on evidence.
i. Expected value
ii. Cost
What will it cost?
Fees, experts, filing costs, internal time and management attention — the spend that accrues whether or not the matter is ever decided.
iii. Time
How long is it carried?
Months or years of an unresolved item on the books — with the distraction, uncertainty and opportunity cost that come with it.
Where Tochelet helps
Built around the disputes businesses actually face.
Wherever real money, a key relationship or a contractual obligation is at stake, a measured read of risk and settlement value sharpens the decision.
01
Commercial contracts
Supply, services, distribution and licensing disputes — breach, non-payment, termination and the exposure that runs both ways.
02
Employment
Severance, wrongful dismissal, restrictive covenants and entitlement claims, where precedent and reputational exposure weigh heavily.
03
Partnership & shareholder
Deadlock, oppression, exit and valuation disputes among founders, partners and shareholders, where the relationship is itself an asset.
04
Real estate
Lease, construction, property and development disputes, where timelines and holding costs shape the rational outcome.
05
Debt & collection
Receivables and recovery matters, weighed against the real cost, time and enforcement risk of pursuing them to the end.
06
Consumer
Customer claims and consumer-protection matters, including the exposure that an individual dispute can aggregate into.
What your team gets
A clear basis for the next decision.
Not a memo of caveats, and not a verdict — a structured assessment your team can take to a board, a finance review or a negotiation.
01
Expected value & settlement range
A clear expected value for the matter and a rational settlement range, with the reasoning that produced them stated plainly.
02
Cost-to-continue estimate
A grounded estimate of what continuing is likely to cost in fees, experts, internal time and elapsed months.
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A neutral basis for decisions
An independent, evidence-aware read your board and management can rely on — free of the bias of the party that wants to be right.
04
Confidentiality
Strictly confidential by default, encrypted in transit and at rest, and never used to train anything outside Tochelet.
30+
Years of resolved-matter data informing the model
4/5
Matters reach agreement rather than judgment
100%
Assessments reviewed by senior counsel
Security & confidentiality
Encrypted in transit & at rest
Confidential by default
SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · GDPR-aligned
Built for management judgment
It supports your decision-makers. It does not replace your lawyers.
Tochelet is a decision-support instrument, not a substitute for counsel. We do not represent you, we do not provide legal advice, and we do not predict court outcomes with certainty. Your lawyers — in-house or external — continue to run the matter. What we add is a neutral, evidence-aware reading of where it stands and what it is worth, so management can make the call with the numbers in front of it.
An assessment is most useful at the points where a business has a real choice to make:
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Before escalation
Before authorising a filing or committing to litigation, weigh the expected value of continuing against the cost of getting there.
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Before mediation
Enter a mediation or settlement conference with a defensible number and a settlement range, not a position improvised in the room.
3
At renewal & negotiation
Price exposure into a contract renewal, a deal or a commercial negotiation, where an open dispute quietly shifts leverage.
Please note
Use of this site does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not constitute legal advice. Any assessment depends on the accuracy and completeness of the information provided, and is intended to inform management judgment alongside your own legal counsel — not to replace it.
Confidential · By appointment
Weigh the matter before you commit to it.
Tell us the shape of the dispute through a short, confidential intake. A member of our team — not an automated system — will review it and respond, in confidence and without obligation.