About Brown Rudnick

Brown Rudnick is a leading international law firm that provides exceptional, client-driven service in global litigation, crisis management (restructuring, investigations and special situations), brand and reputation management, life sciences and technology.  We advise on high-profile cross-border matters while providing the kind of personal attention to clients that is typically found at boutiques. Our lawyers serve our clients around the globe from offices in key financial centers in the U.S. and the U.K., and have been recognized by, among others, Chambers USA, Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation and Law360 for excellence in their fields.

Key Digital Commerce Activity:

• A cross-disciplinary team of lawyers focused on advising software, internet, blockchain cryptocurrency, and fintech companies
• General areas of focus include corporate and tax, commercial contracts, regulatory and policy, arbitration, litigation, trial, appeal, cyber security and data privacy.
• Brown Rudnick’s 3rd Annual Global Blockchain Conference: AI & Digital Assets. Exploring topics including privacy tech and cryptography, intellectual property rights in AI and blockchain, and navigating the legal challenges of AI and data privacy.
• Brown Rudnick achieves landmark ruling in treatment of DAOs in bankruptcy. Brown Rudnick, on behalf of the receivers of Hector DAO, achieved the first Chapter 15 recognition of a foreign main proceeding in which the debtor was a so-called decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), a type of blockchain based software protocol. This is the first U.S. bankruptcy case where the debtor is a DAO.
• Brown Rudnick scored a major victory for Atomic Wallet when a Colorado federal judge dismissed a class action lawsuit alleging that the cryptocurrency wallet company was liable for hackers stealing $100 million worth of digital currency from users’ accounts.

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Brown Rudnick Challenge

Background

Clients always ask the same question: What’s this case worth? In high-stakes insurance recovery litigation, that isn’t academic. It’s often a capital/investment question and value will determine whether to fund and when and if to settle, fold, or try a case. Reserve treatment, board disclosures, funding decisions, and financial structuring all depend on having a credible, dynamic valuation model. But most estimates rely on analog precedent and lawyer intuition/gut. Across business interruption, D&O, environmental, and cyber claims, outcomes are shaped by dense policy language, fragmented case law, and jurisdictional inconsistency. Yet litigants operate with imprecise and unreliable pricing tools.

Challenge

Can we build an LLM-powered Settlement Value Calculator for contested insurance claims? The goal is to produce defensible, probability weighted value ranges across litigation timelines. The tool would ingest policy terms, jurisdictional data, judge behavior, counsel behavior, motion practice, discovery, and insurer specific tactics. It must update dynamically, reflect procedural inflection points, spend, and support real-world capital decisions. These include choices around litigation spend, monetization, and settlement terms.

Example Solutions

A forward-looking settlement value estimator, initiated at complaint and refined throughout litigation. Outputs tailored to help counsel, funders, CFOs, and boards evaluate litigation assets as contingent capital events.