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Element Standard Expands CONTROLit™ to Help Law Firm Pricing Teams Understand the Economics of Litigation

New capabilities connect historical time, cost, staffing and work-product data to the actual work performed throughout a case

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – July 13, 2026 — Element Standard today announced expanded capabilities within CONTROLit™ designed to help law firm pricing professionals better understand, model and manage the economics of litigation.

Most law firm pricing teams have access to financial data. They can see hours, rates, fees, staffing and profitability. What they often cannot see is the litigation context behind those numbers.

CONTROLit™ addresses that gap by connecting financial information to Element Standard’s Litigation Cartography™, a structured data model of the specific components and deliverables that make up a litigation case.

By organizing historical case data around the work that was actually performed, CONTROLit™ helps pricing professionals move beyond broad matter codes, billing narratives and total case cost. Pricing teams can analyze where work occurred, which deliverables drove cost, how staffing changed, where scope expanded and how similar cases were handled in the past.

“Pricing litigation has always been difficult because the financial data is disconnected from the work itself,” said Jaron Luttich, CEO and co-founder of Element Standard. “CONTROLit™ gives pricing professionals the litigation context they need to understand what happened, why it cost what it did and how that experience should inform the next engagement.”

Turning Historical Data Into Pricing Intelligence

CONTROLit can help law firm pricing teams:

• Compare the cost and staffing of similar litigation activities across cases

• Identify the litigation components and deliverables that consistently create budget variance

• Analyze how work was distributed among partners, associates and other professionals

• Detect scope changes that affected cost or profitability

• Build pricing assumptions using actual litigation experience

• Model alternative fee arrangements with greater confidence

• Improve proposals and responses to client RFPs

• Evaluate profitability at a more meaningful level than the overall case

• Give partners clearer guidance during scoping and pricing discussions

The initial approach can be built around historical billing and case data, allowing firms to generate value without requiring attorneys to immediately change how they manage active cases.

“Law firms already possess an enormous amount of pricing intelligence, but much of it is buried inside time entries, invoices, documents and disconnected systems,” continued Luttich. “CONTROLit™ helps firms convert that information into a reusable understanding of how litigation work is staffed, delivered and priced.”

A Shared Operational Model for Litigation

Traditional pricing systems are primarily organized around financial categories. CONTROLit™ adds an operational layer by connecting time, cost, staffing, documents, events, deadlines and deliverables to a consistent model of litigation.

This shared structure can help pricing teams, finance leaders and litigation partners work from the same understanding of the case.

Instead of asking only, “How much did the case cost?” firms can begin asking:

• What work created the cost?

• Which deliverables required the most effort?

• Where did the original scope change?

• Was the work staffed at the appropriate level?

• Which assumptions proved accurate?

• How should the next similar case be priced?

Over time, the resulting data can create a firm-specific body of pricing intelligence that supports better forecasting, more defensible fee arrangements and more productive conversations with clients.

“Litigation will always involve uncertainty,” Luttich said. “That does not mean firms have to price it without structure. The more clearly a firm can understand its prior work, the more intelligently it can scope, staff and price future cases.”

About Element Standard

Element Standard is a legal technology company focused on making litigation understandable to the people who manage, perform and pay for it. Its CONTROLit™ platform uses Litigation Cartography™ to organize litigation around a consistent operational model, connecting case activity, work product, deadlines, costs and strategy.

By creating a shared understanding of what happened, what is happening and what comes next, Element Standard helps law firms and their clients improve visibility, collaboration, pricing and decision-making.

For more information, visit www.elementstandard.com

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