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Litigation Finance Insights
Litigation Finance Insights, published by Validity Finance, focuses on the intersection of finance and litigation, covering topics such as litigation funding, contingency risk insurance, and the monetization of legal claims. The blog explores how litigation finance serves as a source of capital for law firms, including funding for new offices, practice groups, and law firm growth. It also discusses regulatory and disclosure issues related to funding arrangements in patent and other litigation. Additionally, the blog features discussions on arbitration, legal technology ventures, and the evolving capital structures within the legal industry.
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Validity Portfolio Counsel Michelle Eber Recently Quoted in an Article on Bloomberg Law
Validity Portfolio Counsel Michelle Eber was recently quoted in an article on Bloomberg Law discussing recent scrutiny in funding for patent litigation cases. Delaware Chief Judge Colm Connolly has issued a standing order requiring funding arrangements be disclosed.
Michelle, an…
New Podcast Episode: Talking Tea with Dmitri Evseev about his New Tech Venture: Arbitration City
Join us as we dive into the world of tech, featuring a conversation with Dmitri about his new vision Arbitration City, a community and social platform for arbitration users and fans. In this episode, we also take a trip down…
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 recentlythat the individual litigations themselves have begun to be treated as assets that can be monetized.…
New Podcast Episode: The Tea on International Arbitration! with Nicole Silver and Gaela Gehring Flores
Meg Kinnear, ICSID Secretary-General, Spills the Tea
Gaela Gehring Flores and Nicole Silver share Tea with Meg Kinnear, Vice President of the World Bank Group and Secretary-General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). We hear a…
The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Litigation Funder as “External CFO”
Originally published with Bloomberg Law.
Imagine a large company with a breach of contract claim against a small supplier. The company’s outside counsel discusses the merits with the company’s general counsel and chief financial officer to evaluate whether the case…
Why the Common Interest Exception Protects Communications With Litigation Funders
Originally published with Bloomberg Law.
Courts generally deny discovery into a claimant’s communications with litigation funders, relying primarily on the arguments that such discovery is not relevant to the case, and that the communications with funders are protected by the…
Revitalizing the Attorney-Client Privilege in Litigation Funding Discovery Disputes
There is something curious about the emerging caselaw on whether defendants are entitled to discovery into a plaintiff’s communications with litigation funders.
The overwhelming majority of cases deny discovery on one of two grounds: they hold either that the requested…
Video: Litigation As An Investment
Our own Joshua Libling sat down to discuss the idea of litigation as an investment – why funders treat it as such, and why you should as well.
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EDTX Denies Discovery of Litigation Funding Documents
Chief Judge Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas recently adopted a majority rule by denying a motion to compel production of litigation funding documents. [1] The court found that such funding agreements are not relevant to any party’s claims…