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Listed Law Firm Group Hit By £4M Litigation Funder Write Off

RBG said its board is reviewing its strategy with respect to third party litigation funding.
2 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Litigant Challenges Judge Connolly: Your Standing Orders on Disclosure Are Illegal, Misguided

Irell & Manella partner Morgan Chu and others argue that Colm Connolly's standing order on disclosure, which has led to a huge fuss in the patent bar, should have been subject to more rigorous vetting as a local rule of the entire Delaware court.
4 minute read

Law.com

Skilled in the Art With Scott Graham: Six Takeaways From Judge Connolly's Amicus-Like Filing on Patent Ownership Transparency + Who's Arguing a $5.9 Million Fee Award?

The judge fired a massive salvo in his campaign to pull back the curtain on litigation funding generally and on patent monetization company IP Edge in particular.
12 minute read

National Law Journal

Tech Companies, US Chamber Defend Delaware Effort to Lift Veil on Litigation Funding

Delaware U.S. District Chief Judge Colm Connolly is getting plenty of support in his aggressive bid to enforce compliance with ownership and funding disclosure orders. Connolly is speaking up for himself too.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

This Judge Is Scrutinizing Litigation Funding. Some Say He's Overstepping His Authority

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.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Business Case for Opting Out of High Value Class Actions

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

New York Law Journal

Funding the Business of Law

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

Daily Report Online

What Makes a Case Attractive to Litigation Funders?

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

Daily Business Review

Woman Duped Investors Who Thought They Were Funding Personal Injury Settlements

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

The American Lawyer

Meme Stocks for Lawsuits? Ryval's Bet on Democratizing Litigation Finance Faces Long Odds

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

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