An adjudication is running and we're out of hands
The timetable is live, the quantum is the biggest workstream on the file, and everyone who could build it is already committed.
What's happening?
Adjudication does not queue politely behind the rest of the practice's work. A referral needs its valuation built before service, a response gets days to answer figures the other side spent months on, and either way the quantum cannot be compressed into the final weekend.
The tempting shortcuts all cost more than they save. Attacking the other side's figures without putting up your own can leave the adjudicator with a single worked valuation, and it is theirs. Serving a quantum held together by assertion hands the response its easiest paragraphs. And pulling your best people off two other files to save this one just moves the crisis along the corridor.
What the timetable needs is a senior pair of hands that does nothing but the numbers until the decision lands.
The solution
Put the quantum workstream on someone whose only deadline is yours.