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Screening Legal Claims Based on Third-Party Litigation Finance Agreements
Vanderbilt Law Review published a paper in 2013 titled Screening Legal Claims Based on Third-Party Litigation Finance Agreements and Other Signals of Quality by authors Michael Abramowicz and Omer...
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Top Keywords & Phrases for Legal Funding
There are so many keywords and phrases for legal funding it can be confusing. Many companies operating in the space use different phrases and words pertaining to legal finance to differentiate...
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Lawsuit Loan: A Misnomer that Matters
The below is a guest blog post courtesy of Legal Funding Central: At Legal Funding Central, we’re on a mission to educate the world about legal funding, which is why we created LFC360, an information...
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The Tennessean Newspaper Covers Legal Funding
The Tennessean Newspaper recently published an article about legal funding, which is when an individual or business seeks a third party funding source to back their claim in return for a portion of...
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Stephen Gillers: If Litigation Funding is Champertous, The Modern Courtroom...
Occasionally, outdated concepts stem meaningful progress. We’re seeing this now with solar energy as opponents say it will kill the energy sector; with same sex marriage, as opponents cite biblical...
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Litigation Funding can Influence the Courtroom
Litigation funding is a relatively new industry. It’s less than 20 years old as a whole, having first popped up in Europe and Australia in the late 1990s and only later making its way over to the...
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Litigation Funding in Nigeria
Litigation funding is far from widespread in Nigeria. Litigants, however, especially private individuals and small and medium sized enterprises without a dedicated or readily accessible budget for...
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Why Legal Funding Can Help Plaintiffs and Attorneys Involved in Tobacco...
Tobacco cases are extremely expensive to litigate, even though the fees and awards can be enormous. As more attorneys continue to run into a wall obtaining enough money from their bank line of credit...
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What is Legal Funding, and Why Should I Care?
Many plaintiffs’ attorneys will be familiar with the following scenario, or something similar: Two years of research and preparation have paid off, and your client, a 46-year-old woman who lost her...
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How Maine Became a Pioneer for Legal Funding
Many people don’t know more about the great state of Maine than “it borders South-Eastern Canada,” and that’s quite a shame. There are plenty of interesting facts about Maine: In 1820, Maine became...
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What If These Women Had Tried Legal Funding?
Many women who opted for breast enhancement surgery in the 1970s and 1980s found themselves as victims of fraud, deceit, and physical agony. Dow Corning, global supplier of silicone products, had been...
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A Comment to Critics of the Legal Lending Industry
The website LawsuitLendingTruth.com is part of the tort reform network that has taken aim at the legal funding industry. The legal finance space is one that threatens the backers of the tort reform...
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Two Truths and a Lie, Legal Funding Edition
For today’s blog post, I want to try something a little bit different. We’re going to play a game. You might be familiar with this one – it’s called “Two Truths and a Lie”, commonly played as an...
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WECLAIM: Mass Litigation at Hand
In 2014, the French mass litigation landscape changed radically with the “Hamon Law,” which was passed by the French Parliament on March 17th, 2014. Prior to that, the European Commission published a...
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How Legal Funding Can Save You Time and Make You Money
A contingency fee attorney does not lead an easy life. This is a fact. Unlike their billable hour counterparts, contingency fee attorneys don’t start off with plenty of cash, and there’s no guarantee...
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3 Myths About Legal Funding
If you were to stop a random pedestrian and ask them about legal funding, you likely wouldn’t find out much relevant information. This is because legal funding is such a new industry, and many people...
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The Ups and Downs of Self Financing Your Law Practice
Out of the many forms of traditional financing out there, self-financing sounds like the most ideal. It’s just you, yourself, and your money, independently making your law practice run like a dream....
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Delaware Court Protects Litigation Funding Under Work Product Doctrine
An international discovery dispute has led to the Delaware Court of Chancery to accept litigation funding as part of the litigation process. Despite the fact that none of the other issues in the...
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A U.S. Lobby Against Litigation Funding In The Netherlands?
This is a guest post courtesy of Sara Liesker, CEO of Dutch-based litigation funder Liesker Legal NV. For updates pertaining to litigation funding in The Netherlands, please follow Ms. Liesker on...
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Legal Funding, Litigation Financing, and Lawsuit Lending: What’s The Difference?
There is no difference! According to Wikipedia, legal financing is “the mechanism or process through which litigants (and even law firms) can finance their litigation or other legal costs through a...
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