Conservatives have racked up massive wins in the courts: ending deference to government agencies, ending protections for abortion, expanding religious liberty, and many more. Lawsuits are also holding ...
A funder is backing one of the lead attorneys in novel litigation accusing big tech companies of deliberately making sites ...
The House Judiciary Committee recently held a markup on the Protecting Third Party Litigation Funding From Abuse Act. Despite its reassuring title, the bill would do far more harm than good — ...
Efforts in Congress to regulate or tax litigation funders have stalled amid opposition from an unlikely alliance of MAGA figures such as Laura Loomer, progressive Democrats and trial lawyers.
The litigation-funding giant's four newest hires have resumes that include time at Quinn Emanuel, Mayer Brown, Davis Polk and ...
Lawyers for Civil Justice (LCJ) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) on March 10 submitted a rules suggestion proposing an amendment to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure ...
It’s well known that frivolous lawsuits cost billions of dollars each year, but few people know about a shadowy subset of financiers — sometimes overseas — who are intensifying the problems in America ...
Across Talc, Depo-Provera, and Cartiva litigation, Legal Bay continues to provide pre-settlement funding, post-verdict funding, and, where applicable, appellate funding solutions. Mass tort and ...
Imagine a small-town business owner facing a meritless lawsuit that could bankrupt three generations of family enterprise. His lawyers advise settling because the plaintiff’s backers have unlimited ...
This first-of-its-kind partnership will shield insurance customers from being misled into long, unnecessarily, and costly legal disputes by third parties.
Recently we have written about some of the pitfalls associated with litigation funding when it comes to attorney liability (see here). Thereafter, we discussed how a New York appellate court, for the ...
Litigation funding - the practice of an outside entity financing the costs of investigating and litigating a case - has become a fixture of the legal industry. Law firms of every size can now avail ...