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Bentham IMF Expands Investment Team With Hires on Both Coasts

Daniela Raz, former general counsel and chief operating officer for LightRay Cos., and Fiona Chaney, a former trial lawyer from a Los Angeles-based litigation firm, join Bentham's New York and Los Angeles offices, respectively.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Bentham Launches Second US-Focused Litigation Finance Vehicle as Capital Grows

For litigation funders, money keeps coming in the door. But can they put it to use?
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

Bentham Launches Second US-Focused Litigation Finance Vehicle as Capital Grows

For litigation funders, money keeps coming in the door. But can they put it to use?
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

New Ethics Opinions Tackle Client Loans, Crowdfunding

When clients use finance companies or crowdsourcing platforms to pay legal fees, lawyers have stricter ethics obligations if they're closely involved with the fundraising efforts, bar associations say.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Five Predictions for Litigation Finance in 2019

As litigation funding takes on a bigger role in the legal industry, the next year could bring with it a series of important changes.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

Pierce Bainbridge Adds More Big Law Recruits in New York, DC

Founder John Pierce claims his young firm has "cracked the code of building a law firm for the digital age.”
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Litigation Funding Company Survives Payday Lending Lawsuit

“Like the Court of Appeals, we conclude that neither the Industrial Loan Act nor the Payday Lending Act applies to the transactions at issue in this case,” Georgia Supreme Court Justice Keith Blackwell said
3 minute read

International Edition

Litigation Funder Therium to Launch in Australia

London-based litigation funder Therium Capital Management will open an office in Melbourne starting next year.
3 minute read

International Edition

Vannin's IPO setback unlikely to spook buoyant litigation funding market

Litigation funder Vannin this week pulled its proposed IPO - but is this anything more than a bump in the road for the upwardly mobile litigation finance market?
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY Litigation Funder Sets Aside $50 Million for Women-Led Matters

With Burford Capital "sitting atop a pile of money," the company thinks it's found a new way to help close the legal industry's gender gap.
4 minute read

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