Every project has an 'Oh Sh*t' folder. We know where it is.

When a law firm gets briefed on a dispute, they usually get the ‘Instagram Filter’ version of the project and events. 

The client presents a clean timeline. Perfect letters. Notices issued on time. Spotless site diaries. 

But anyone who has actually spent time in a site shed knows there’s always another folder. 

It’s usually hidden in a stack of paper buried deep under the open ITPs and NCRs, or tucked away in a sub-folder on the Project Manager’s laptop, labelled ‘Drafts’. It’s full of emails that shouldn't have been sent. Photos of defects before they were covered up. Claims for EOTs from subbies left unaddressed because no one has any idea how to push the problem upstream. The admission of guilt. 

We call it the ‘Oh Sh*t’ folder. 

And if the other side finds it before you do, your legal strategy is toast. 

Because The Bench comes from the delivery side, we know exactly where to look. We go in, find the skeletons, and put them on your desk before discovery starts. 

Forewarned is forearmed. Let us do the digging.