Delay Concentration

Delay concentration is the share of a book's time exposure that rides on a common driver, such as one court's calendar, one doctrine or one procedural regime. It identifies where a single event could delay many matters at once.

Matters in the same court share its backlog. Matters in the same consolidated proceeding share its schedule. If a book is concentrated this way, an adverse scheduling event does not delay one matter but a block of them.

Measuring it means mapping each matter's time to its drivers and reporting how much exposure sits on each. It complements outcome concentration and is often the more neglected of the two.

Delay concentration is not high duration. A book can have short matters and still have delay concentrated in one place.