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Ron Davis is a partner with Fogler Rubinoff in Toronto, where he has over 35 years of litigation experience. In this episode, he and Lindsay chat about challenges and opportunities in the legal industry in Toronto and...more
Litigation finance is a growing industry. Increasing awareness of the ability to finance lawsuits is changing claimants’ analysis of when to bring claims and how to fund their businesses while they do. In deciding whether...more
Forget cryptocurrency—there is another kind of investment making the news in recent years, and it is one creating some major headaches for corporate defendants: litigation funding....more
Funding litigation has gone upscale from its more modest personal injury roots. With skyrocketing litigation costs, both public and private companies and law firms are turning to litigation funders to soften the short-term...more
Litigation funding, also called litigation finance, is a rapidly growing industry and involves a practice where a third-party funds some, or all, of a plaintiff’s legal expenses in exchange for a portion of the proceeds from...more
The Situation: Following a boom in class actions backed by litigation funders, the Australian Federal Government has introduced new regulations which classify litigation funding schemes as "managed investment schemes" and...more
On Wednesday, June 3, 2020, the Minnesota Supreme Court approved of the practice of litigation funding in the state, abolishing common law restrictions prohibiting third parties from covering all or part of the costs of...more
Litigation funders are well aware that half of the potential market is largely untapped. Clients would prefer to focus on their business rather than litigation, and offload some or all of their defense costs to a third-party....more
Third-party litigation financing is a topic of increasing interest. The practice has become more common, and federal courts as well as the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board are responding to ensure that the real parties in...more
Last month, this blog provided an overview of litigation funding, and identified a number of issues which we planned to cover over the next several months. This month’s installment focuses on the legality of litigation...more
Earlier this year we covered how Jim Duncey, the majority owner and face of Duncey’s Caps, Inc., was involved in a car accident and arrested for DWI. While the company survived the initial PR crisis, its bottom line did not....more
Third-party litigation and arbitration funding is increasingly being utilized in the United States. Are the corresponding financing costs recoverable in arbitrations? According to the N.Y. Times, dispute resolution funding...more
Civil litigation, once a realm confined to rules-based conflict resolution between adverse parties, has become profitable commerce in the US. Where commerce thrives, investors looking for healthy returns follow. Unlike other...more
Litigation financing has quickly grown from a fledging concept into a robust industry. The concept is simple: in exchange for a share of any proceeds, a financing firm agrees to pay all or a portion of the plaintiff’s legal...more