PROCEDURAL ANALYSIS

Information, burden, and the next step.

Trace information, burden, and the possibilities ahead.

Anderson v. MeridianU.S. federal civil · Commercial contract · discovery

AS OF

Synthetic case with illustrative projections.

Information cutoff: Day 143 / 6 recorded events

Information saturationILLUSTRATIVE64%Illustrative normalized information proxy

Accumulated burdenRECORD$118,400684 recorded attorney hours

Remaining burdenILLUSTRATIVE$88.6k$57.6k – $141.7k · scenario range

Remaining durationILLUSTRATIVE102 daysSelected baseline continuation · illustrative

01Information / burden

RECORD + PROJECTION

How much does the next step add?

Record proxyIllustrative continuation

TODAY · 64% information / $118.4k

DEMO WEIGHTS

Illustrative branching weights at this cutoff.

Additional discovery41%

Motion practice24%

Second deposition18%

Resolution11%

Other6%

Weights are authored fixtures, not learned probabilities.

Candidate action	Information gain	Burden	Duration
Targeted discovery	+0.18	$38k	42 days
Second deposition	+0.11	$27k	30 days
Motion to compel	+0.09	$19k	24 days
Expert discovery	+0.24	$61k	55 days

Information added by each action from the selected cutoff.

APPROACHING SATURATION

Explore when marginal information becomes small while burden continues.

Continuation horizon

+0.28illustrative additional information
$99.3k continuing burden

Alternating discovery / deposition scenario. No saturation probability has been calibrated.