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An alternative fee arrangement is a billing structure for legal work, such as a fixed fee, capped fee, or phase-based fee, used in place of pure hourly billing.
Seven historical matters is a workable starting cohort in the current methodology. A small cohort can still provide useful benchmarking evidence, so AFA.IQ reports observed historical ranges and actual reference matters rather than presenting the result as high-confidence statistics.
A Relative EWU is a normalized workload scale for a workstream, set so that 1.0 equals the cohort’s median standardized workload for that workstream. It lets AFA.IQ compare workload across matters even when the true number of underlying events isn’t reliably known.
Yes. AFA.IQ classifies that work as conditional, reports how often it occurred historically and its typical cost when it did, then lets you add it to the base fee, price it as a separate module, price it per occurrence, or exclude it.
No. AFA.IQ provides the historical evidence and a recommended starting point. The specialist still selects the benchmark cohort, chooses how to treat conditional work, picks a risk position, and applies commercial adjustments on top of the analytical benchmark.
Historical billing data at the matter, workstream, and timekeeper level, including total hours billed and actual invoiced fees for each combination. Task, activity, and narrative detail are optional and improve scope classification but are not required.
Yes. AFA.IQ runs on the same structured, matter-level billing data as the rest of Legal Decoder's products and is built for law firms, corporate legal teams, and bankruptcy fee examiners.

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