Settlement intelligence
Structured views of claimed, disputed, recoverable and settlement-ready legal costs, supported by historic settlement patterns.
Legal Costs Intelligence
LCO Intel.
Legal costs intelligence for tariff periods, case law, rulings, court practice, non-litigious cost assessment, counsel fee parameters, settlement analytics, predictive taxation and costs-order consequences.
Intelligence that supports judgment.
LCO Intel is designed to support professional legal-costs judgment with structured data, precedent awareness, tariff logic, document extraction, non-litigious fee assessment and practical legal-costs insight.
Protected institutional knowledge.
The underlying tariff intelligence, case-law interpretation, Taxing Master practice insight and fee-guideline analysis form part of Legal Costs Online's proprietary legal-costs intelligence infrastructure: human legal-costs knowledge meeting AI-driven software personally built by Matthys Lourens.
LCO Quantum
The crown jewel: data-driven legal costs intelligence.
LCO Quantum is the settlement and taxation analytics layer built around historical data, benchmarking, outcome prediction, recoverability statistics and legal-costs risk modelling.
Predictive taxation
Risk indicators for likely reductions, unsupported disbursements, counsel fee exposure and tariff-period disputes.
Benchmarking dashboards
Average reductions by division, counsel fee recovery, settlement percentages, high-risk tariff items and Taxing Master tendencies.
National Dataset
Where defensibility compounds.
As firms work through the LCO platform, legal-costs records can be structured around litigious matters, non-litigious mandates, bill values, fee agreements, taxed outcomes, assessed outcomes, reductions, settlement figures, counsel fees, court divisions, objection categories and recoverability results.
Historical outcomes
Taxed outcomes, assessed outcomes, reductions and settlement figures organised by matter type, court, division, tariff period and objection category.
Counsel fee trends
Counsel fee recovery, scale disputes, preparation risk, day-fee patterns and division-specific treatment.
Cost assessment behaviour
Structured insight into recoverability tendencies, objection success, high-risk items, taxation patterns and non-litigious fee assessment outcomes.