Practice 02 · of eight
Legal & litigation intelligence
Fact development, subject location, asset research, relationship mapping, chronology reconstruction and public-source intelligence for legal teams — instructed by the attorney and structured for the file.
- Instructed byAttorney or counsel
- Typical duration1–4 weeks
- Commercial basisPer matter
- Tested byOpposing counsel, court
Questions this practice answers
Clients rarely arrive with a service in mind.
- Where is the respondent, and can they be served?
- Can this pleaded timeline be independently corroborated?
- What asset indicators are lawfully visible?
- Which witnesses can be located and approached lawfully?
What the work involves
Within the ten-stage process.
- Stages 01–03
Instruction and legality
Instruction taken from the attorney, with privilege, scope and lawful method recorded.
- Stage 04
Issue definition
The factual gaps in the pleadings are converted into researchable questions.
- Stage 05
Development
Public records, field enquiries and preserved digital material, built into a referenced chronology.
- Stage 07
Handover
Evidence pack and source index delivered in a form that can be annexed with minimal re-work.
Deliverable
What you receive.
An evidence pack and referenced chronology, prepared on the assumption that opposing counsel will test every source.
- ChronologyPrimary
- Source indexAnnexure
- Subject / location reportAnnexure
- Public-record research
- Chronology build
- Asset indicators
- Field enquiries
- OSINT
- Relationship mapping
Limits of this practice
What this work is not.
- No legal advice or strategy
- No guarantee of admissibility
- No contact with represented parties outside instruction
- No pretexting of protected records
Often combined with
Most matters draw on three or four practices.
Confidential enquiries
Start with the question, not the method.
We assess the concern, lawful purpose and available information before recommending a scope.
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