Case Study: Ascendion Law achieves precise litigation outcome estimates and smoother negotiations with Palisade's PrecisionTree

PrecisionTree Aids Commercial Law Firm in Case Outcome Estimates

Ascendion Law, a Vancouver commercial litigation firm, faced the challenge of estimating the chances and monetary outcomes of complex legal disputes that hinge on multiple judicial decision points. To move beyond intuition and provide clients defensible forecasts, Managing Partner Chilwin Cheng turned to Palisade’s decision‑tree software PrecisionTree to quantify the probabilities at each decision node and model case risk.

Using Palisade’s PrecisionTree, Ascendion Law builds detailed decision trees, runs sensitivity analyses and Monte Carlo simulations to produce probability distributions, expected values, and budget forecasts; these visual models help focus investigations and settlement strategy. The approach led to clearer client communications and stronger negotiations — for example, sharing the tree with opposing counsel helped secure 80% of the client’s ask — and gave Ascendion Law measurable improvements in forecasting, risk quantification, and settlement outcomes.

Ascendion Law

Chilwin Cheng

Managing Partner