No stake in the answer
The firm does not seek the file — the review is priced as a review, so the recommendation to stay the course means exactly what it says.
Independent second opinion
A fresh read of the file, owing nothing to the strategy in it.
Independent second opinions on litigation and dispute strategy from Aun & Co. — a confidential review of the case, the plan and the advice you are getting.
Counsel who built a strategy defend it; that is human, and it is exactly why second opinions exist. An independent review reads the file cold — pleadings, evidence, advice, costs to date — and answers the questions the client can no longer ask inside the relationship: is this case what I am told it is, is the strategy still right or merely still running, and does the settlement math actually favour continuing. The review is confidential, and existing counsel need not know it happened.
The work spans
- Full-file review: pleadings, evidence, correspondence, advice
- Strategy audit: does the current course still fit the current facts
- Settlement-versus-continue analysis in numbers
- Pre-commitment reviews before irreversible procedural steps
- Written opinion the client can act on — or quietly shelve
- Costs have doubled, the timeline has doubled, and the confident updates have stopped being specific.
- An irreversible step is proposed — waiver, admission, a witness — and you want a cold read first.
- You are told to reject a settlement offer and cannot verify the reasoning behind the advice.
- The case matters too much to run on trust alone, however earned.
The file is read in the order a judge would read it, not the order counsel presented it — the reordering alone often changes the picture. Each strategic choice on record is tested against the alternative that was available at the time, separating decisions that were right from decisions that were merely made. The opinion states its conclusion plainly, including the uncomfortable ones: continue, correct course, change counsel, or settle now and stop the bleeding.
04 · What you get
Fully confidential
Existing counsel are not contacted and need never know; the opinion is yours to act on, share, or shelve.
Plain conclusions
The opinion ends in a recommendation, not in balance-on-one-hand prose — that is what a second opinion is for.
A typical engagement: three years into litigation, a client asks whether the case still justifies its burn rate. The cold read finds the liability theory sound but the quantum inflated beyond what the evidence carries — the opinion reframes the realistic range, and the settlement mandate changes the same week.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
Is it appropriate to get a second opinion on my lawyer's strategy?
Entirely. It is standard practice in medicine and increasingly in high-stakes disputes; a client is always entitled to independent review of advice they are paying to follow. Done confidentially, it does not disturb the existing relationship at all.
Will my current lawyer find out about the review?
Not from this firm. The review is conducted from the documents you provide, without contacting existing counsel, and the engagement itself is confidential. Whether to raise the findings with your counsel afterwards is entirely your choice.
What does a second-opinion review require and produce?
It requires the file — pleadings, key evidence, the advice given, and the cost picture. It produces a written opinion: an assessment of the case's real strength, an audit of the strategy, and a plain recommendation, usually within one to two weeks.