Seven years later, Mr. Rodriguez, who will owe Whitehaven Financial Group as much as $800,000 if he settles his suit, is accusing Jacoby & Meyers of encouraging him and other clients who are down on their luck to seek litigation loans with “usurious” rates.
The practices of litigation funding companies have generated increasing controversy. But Mr. Rodriguez’s suit is unusual in that he is attempting to hold his former lawyers, in addition to the funder, liable for what he says are the unconscionable financial terms with which he has been saddled.
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