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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 Dan Packel | August 4, 2020
In its first guidance on the booming tool since 2012, the group urged lawyers working with outside funders to be exacting and detail all arrangements in writing. But they stopped short of saying the arrangements should be disclosed to the court.
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By Dan Packel | August 4, 2020
In its first guidance on the booming tool since 2012, the group urged lawyers working with outside funders to be exacting and detail all arrangements in writing. But they stopped short of saying the arrangements should be disclosed to the court.
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By Dan Packel | July 28, 2020
The funder has seen boosted demand from the pandemic, completing more deals in the second quarter of 2020 than it did in all of 2019.
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By David Thomas | July 10, 2020
Different litigation financiers use different business models, experts say, which is why you shouldn't expect a wave of privately owned funds rushing to get on a U.S. stock exchange.
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By James P. Fitzgerald and John M. Daly | July 9, 2020
Alternative litigation financing for infants in birth injury medical malpractice cases in New York levels the playing field.
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By Mike Scarcella | June 26, 2020
The federal False Claims Act is silent on whether a whistleblower can enter into a litigation funding agreement. "We decline to interfere in Congress's legislative prerogatives by engrafting any further limitations onto the statute; that task is appropriately left for Congress," an Eleventh Circuit panel said in a closely watched case.
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By Dan Packel | June 23, 2020
Founder Eva Shang also revealed that former federal appeals court judge Richard Posner has exited his role as an adviser because of health concerns.
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By Zack Needles | June 19, 2020
Business groups are claiming that litigation funders have caused a surge in shareholder class actions, but funders say if there has been a surge, it's because of corporate malfeasance.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | June 19, 2020
Trial lawyer B. Gregg Price will appeal a summary judgment that orders him to pay more than $6 million to Houston litigation funder Virage Master.
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By Christopher Niesche | June 18, 2020
Plaintiffs lawyers say the U.S. Chamber began targeting Australia after a number of class-action wins against several corporations, but the U.S. Chamber says Australia's class action regime is too plaintiff-friendly and is "the most profitable litigation funding market in the world."
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