Litigation costs calculator 2025

With the FORIS litigation cost calculator you can quickly and easily determine the expected costs of a legal dispute. The free tool offers you a transparent overview of court costs, legal fees and possible financial risks.

  • Fast, easy and non-binding
  • According to the revised and old RVG/GKG
  • For all instances
  • Also for settlements
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Litigation costs calculator 2025

With the FORIS litigation cost calculator, you can quickly and easily estimate the litigation costs for court proceedings in Germany and determine your individual cost risk. Select the calculation basis according to your requirements. In addition to the revised Lawyers’ Fees and Court Costs Act (KostBRÄG), which has been in effect since June 1, 2025, we also continue to offer calculations based on the previous version of the Act.

  • According to revised and old RVG/GKG
  • Court costs, own and opposing lawyers’ fees
  • Legal fees can also be calculated according to hourly rate
  • Expert costs and expenses can be added
  • Result of the calculation can be called up as a PDF
  • Break-even calculation with percentage success
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Process cost

Court costs
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Own lawyer costs RVG
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Oppenents’ lawyer costs
Procedural fee
Appointment fee
Additional fee
Flat charge for mail and telecommunication
Other expenses, travel charges
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VAT
Sum opposing lawyer costs
Process costs in total

Process cost

Court costs
Court fees
Expert / witness costs
Sum court costs
Own lawyer costs RVG
Procedural fee
Appointment fee
Additional fee
Flat charge for mail and telecommunication
Other expenses, travel charges
subtotal
VAT
Sum own lawyer costs
Oppenents’ lawyer costs
Procedural fee
Appointment fee
Additional fee
Flat charge for mail and telecommunication
Other expenses, travel charges
subtotal
VAT
Sum opposing lawyer costs
Process costs in total
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Process cost

Court costs
Court fees
Expert / witness costs
Sum court costs
Own lawyer costs RVG
Procedural fee
Appointment fee
Additional fee
Flat charge for mail and telecommunication
Other expenses, travel charges
subtotal
VAT
Sum own lawyer costs
Oppenents’ lawyer costs
Procedural fee
Appointment fee
Additional fee
Flat charge for mail and telecommunication
Other expenses, travel charges
subtotal
VAT
Sum opposing lawyer costs
Process costs in total
Streitwert2 erforderlich

Process cost

Court costs
Court fees
Expert / witness costs
Sum court costs
Own lawyer costs RVG
Procedural fee
Appointment fee
Additional fee
Flat charge for mail and telecommunication
Other expenses, travel charges
subtotal
VAT
Sum own lawyer costs
Oppenents’ lawyer costs
Procedural fee
Appointment fee
Additional fee
Flat charge for mail and telecommunication
Other expenses, travel charges
subtotal
VAT
Sum opposing lawyer costs
Process costs in total
Streitwert3 erforderlich
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Pre-trial legal fees
Business fee
Settlement fee
Flat charge for mail and telecommunication
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As part of our litigation funding services for dispute amounts ranging from EUR 100,000 to well over EUR 100 million, we assume the entire litigation cost risk – including court fees, as well as your own and your opponent’s legal costs. In an initial, free and non-binding assessment, we evaluate the prospects of success for your claims. Ideally, you should provide us with as much information as possible at an early stage.

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FORIS litigation costs calculator App

The FORIS litigation cost calculator can be downloaded from the App Store for your iPhone or iPad and from the Google Play Store for Android devices.

Litigation costs calculator for iOS
Litigation costs calculator for Android

 
 

FORIS process cost overview as a table

Ideal for court appointments and client discussions – our popular FORIS legal costs overview. Of course with the RVG/GKG fee rates according to KostBRÄG effective as of  June 1st, 2021. If you don’t have a copy yet, or if you need additional ones, we will be happy to send you the desired quantity free of charge.

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Conny Leuschner

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Conny Leuschner
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