How BENCH works
A lawyer does a piece of work. BENCH records how they did it, checks whether the same judgement shows up in practice, and keeps one profile of what they are ready to handle next.
Built from the way your firm works.
Matter patterns, templates, values and L&D priorities shape each simulation.
Matter patterns
Commercial disputesSupply agreementsTermination and notice
Templates
Advice noteInstruction summary
Firm values
Proportionate adviceEscalate early
L&D priorities
Remedy selection
Simulation brief
“Assess whether Calder validly terminated and identify the immediate commercial risk.”
An illustrative matter. No real client, party or work product.
RoleTaskReview point
The work becomes the assessment.
A client call, first-pass work, rationale and revision reveal how someone thinks and responds.
Client call
Speed matters, but we cannot accept unlimited exposure.
First-pass position
Use a proportionate cap tied to the commercial value.
RationaleClient priorityProportionate risk
Review & revision
Defend the position if it is rejected.
Position narrowed.
Rationale updated.
The Twin changes as the evidence changes.
Simulation, approved real work and manager review update responsibility, supervision and what should be tested next.
- Simulation
- Real work
- Manager review
- Responsibility
- Drafts under directionOwn first-pass work within an agreed scope.
- Supervision
- Full review of every outputStrategy-stage review required.
- Next verification
- Not yet tested under challengeDefend the recommendation on a client call.
Calibrated to firm standards, values and review practices
Capability is not one score. It is a record that keeps moving.
BENCH follows evidence from controlled simulation into approved real work, keeping the individual view and the team view connected.
- BENCH Simulate
- Watch judgement happen, before the stakes are real.Realistic matters built from the firm's own work: the instruction, the documents, the missing information, the fact that changes halfway through. The lawyer decides; BENCH records what they did and why.
- BENCH Work Check
- Find out whether it transfers into practice.Permissioned and matter-scoped. It connects the original instruction, the first draft, the sources relied on, reviewer comments, partner redlines and the final work product, then looks for the same behaviour in later comparable work.
- BENCH Twin
- One capability picture that keeps moving.Every completed task updates the Twin: what the person can do, how strong the evidence is, where performance holds up across contexts, and what review they still need. It can move down as well as up.
- BENCH Teams
- Allocate work to strengths you can evidence.Recorded time and current matter load read against demonstrated capability, so work is allocated on evidence rather than on who is free. It shows where a team is strong, where coverage is thin and where supervision is concentrated, without ranking people against each other.