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Claims about how auditors' exposure to lawsuits, legal liability, and litigation risk relates to their conduct and outputs — audit effort, conservatism, rigor, fees, and audit quality — including auditor responses to litigation regimes and client risk. Excludes credit rating agencies and non-audit certification schemes.

Auditors facing higher litigation risk conduct more conservative and rigorous audits

SupportedThe evidence favors the claim, but the examination is incomplete or the evidence is indirect.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Third-party certification reliabilityimportance · minorImportance 0.30, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →

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