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Themis has recently written about how the Corona Virus Pandemic might affect the future of litigation funding. Today we will turn our focus on a more immediate issue and point out how law firms with a portfolio of good cases on contingent fee arrangements can use Claim Based Funding to manage cash flow, finance growth… Continue Reading

The rapid emergence of the Corona Virus is a human tragedy which has upended the world’s social order and financial markets. It is much too early to tell whether the spread of the virus will create a worldwide pandemic with significant mortality or will turn out to be a more typical health event that is… Continue Reading

On April 3, 2018 the Wisconsin State Legislature passed an omnibus judicial reform law, Wisconsin Act 235. Among many tweaks to the judicial rules in Wisconsin, the law contained a provision requiring litigants to “provide to the other parties any agreement” under which third-party funders are entitled to share in any earnings from a civil… Continue Reading

Third party litigation finance was originally conceived in Australia to enable distressed companies to pursue valid claims. In that market where lawyers do not work on contingent fees and where the loser risks paying the winner’s legal fees, third party funding offered the only avenue for the distressed company to pursue its claim to resolution.… Continue Reading

In late 2007 Juridica Investments Limited launched its initial public offering and commercial litigation finance got its kick-start in the US market. Initially the idea of commercial litigation finance faced skepticism because of a general lack of awareness of how it would work and how it might affect the dynamics of the US judicial system.… Continue Reading