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Regulatory and legal issues surrounding the burgeoning litigation finance market, as well as deals, financials, and analysis of how litigation funding is changing the practice of law.
By Scott Graham | November 21, 2022
The appellate court temporarily stayed Connolly's order requiring information about retention letters and settlement agreements. The documents could show whether Mavexar LLC is acting only as a consultant or as an undisclosed third-party funder in a string of patent infringement suits.
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By Mark N. Klein | November 14, 2022
The fact that remaining in the class is still the default is not surprising. However, this is arguably changing and will continue to do so as GCs and CFOs face growing economic pressure to maximize the value they extract from their companies' litigation assets.
6 minute read
By Joshua Libling | October 31, 2022
Traditional lenders have been willing to treat consistently generated fee revenue as an income stream against which to lend. But it is only more recently that the individual litigations themselves have begun to be treated as assets that can be monetized. This process, litigation finance, is by now familiar, but below I discuss the next step for that industry: financing the business of law itself.
7 minute read
By Raychel Lean | October 11, 2022
What characteristics separate the fund-worthy cases from the rest? That's a question that commercial litigation finance company LexShares tackles with a new report that analyzed more than 30,000 federal and state cases from across the country.
7 minute read
By Michael A. Mora | September 28, 2022
Judith Paris-Pinder claimed she would use investor funds to extend loans to attorneys representing litigation plaintiffs who had settled their claims but were still awaiting settlement payments from the insurance companies.
4 minute read
By Dan Roe | September 27, 2022
A fault line has emerged between company co-founders Kyle Roche and Emin Gün Sirer. And experts question the incentives created by a "stock market" that sells tradable shares in lawsuits.
12 minute read
By Ross Todd | September 13, 2022
A new report out this morning from Burford Capital finds that companies that opt out of class actions most or all of the time are three times more likely to use legal finance than those that tend to remain in the class.
8 minute read
By Cedra Mayfield | August 16, 2022
Appellate courts and judicial circuits looking to take advantage of federal grant money offered through the Biden administration's American Rescue Plan Act can submit applications starting Sept. 15.
3 minute read
By Justin Henry | August 12, 2022
A new lawsuit highlights that referral fees, very common among personal injury lawyers, can lead to plenty of disputes, even when lawyers document fee-sharing agreements.
5 minute read
By Charles Toutant | July 1, 2022
"In my position, I get to meet a broad range of people and each case yields a new puzzle in need of a solution. I love learning, and the practice of law, if done right, requires that you continue to learn and refine your skills on a daily basis," Mathews said.
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