Case Management

Case management systems usually help you organize and schedule your case. Evaluating your case is an extemely important component of case management.

FactLogic requires that facts, aggravating and mitigating circumstances, and interests be independent, well organized, and accurately documented. FactLogic forces you to think more accurately about these facts, and it allows your colleagues to review the facts and to contribute their judgments. To use FactLogic you must do the following:

Check for Independence. List only those facts that are independent of every other fact. When facts are listed (as separate from one another), they a priori are considered to be distinguishable. Therefore, the act of listing facts as separate is the first step toward checking for independence. Often this is sufficient, but not always. You must check each fact for independence. From a mathematical point of view, two facts are mutually independent if your knowledge that one has occurred does not alter your subjective probability of the other. Dependent facts cause the result of FactLogic to be less accurate.

List the Facts. List the independent facts. The more carefully each is stated, the more able the evaluators are to evaluate them accurately.

Quantify Judgments. Quantification requires the evaluators to give considerable thought to the probabilities for each independent fact.

Peer Review. Once the facts are organized and documented, and the probabilities are supplied by an evaluator, the case is ready for peer review.