legal-risk-assessorlisted

# Legal Risk Assessor ## What this does Takes a decision a client faces and sets out the realistic options, what could go wrong with each and how likely and severe that is, and the realistic best and likely case alongside the downside — organised around what the client has actually said matters to them. It supports the client's decision; it does not make it. Where the analysis depends on a legal question — how likely a claim is to succeed, whether a position would hold up — it grounds that in supplied authority or flags it as needing research, rather than asserting a probability from memory. ## Before you start **The decision and the options actually on the table.** Stated by the user, not invented. If the options have not been clearly identified, ask the user to state what is realistically available before drafting anything — including whether "do nothing" or maintaining the status quo is genuinely one of them, since it is often implicitly excluded without being ruled out on the merits. **What matters to the client.** Cost, time, certainty, reputation, preserving the relationship, precedent for future disputes — whichever mix actually applies. This is blocking: risk is not one-dimensional, and the same option can be low financial risk and high reputational risk at once. Which matters more is the client's call, not an assumption to make on their behalf. Not blocking, ask once and proceed on what is available: **governing law**, where part of the analysis turns on a lega