Lake Whillans
Posts by Lake Whillans
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Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
Litigation Finance: Creating A Code Of Conduct
Companies considering a litigation financing offer should keep in mind these five principles and their importance. -
Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
Delaware Court Sees The Distinction Between Modern Litigation Finance And Medieval Champerty
The concerns of medieval kings should not constrain modern day companies from being able to use litigation finance to obtain justice. - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Canada, Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
The Maple Tree Is Growing: Commercial Litigation Funding In Canada
We expect there will be more developments in Canada as businesses seek to realize the opportunity created by litigation finance.
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Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
How To Choose A Litigation Funder
Beyond word of mouth, how might one choose among litigation funders, particularly if they are offering ostensibly equivalent economic terms? -
Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
Litigation Finance: A Financial Perspective
How does the redistribution of risk to the party that is most willing and able to bear it allow companies to more efficiently allocate capital resources? -
Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
Introducing Marla Decker: From Litigator To Litigation Funder
Litigation finance is an exciting and growing area with fewer naysayers than supporters that is taking hold in the U.S. Learn more about it here. -
Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
Litigation Finance: A Symposium At NYU (You’re Invited!)
The event is free of charge, and you can even get CLE credit. We hope to see you there! -
Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
Litigation Finance: Is Champerty An Issue? Are Communications With Funders Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege?
Are you concerned about the ethics of litigation finance? You're not the only one. - Sponsored
AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
How solo lawyers, midsize firms, and global large law firms have an opportunity to adjust the way they work. -
Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
Business Trial Lawyers To Examine Litigation Finance
As litigation finance has become increasingly prevalent in the United States, it has captured the attention of both companies and their corporate lawyers. -
Boutique Law Firms, Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
Litigation Finance For Boutique Law Firms
This is how litigation finance can help lawyers at emerging boutique law firms that are trying to sustain and grow a business as they attract new clients. -
Litigation Finance
Litigation Finance: 10 Questions To Help Advise Your Client
Here's a great analytics tool to help claimholders and their lawyers determine whether litigation finance makes sense for their business. -
Litigation Finance
How to Build a Quality Litigation Finance Firm (Part 2)
Exploring the most critical aspect of building a successful litigation finance company: case selection. -
Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
David v. Goliath: A Conversation With Julia Woog
Ed. note: This is the second installment of a series of interviews with accomplished attorneys concerning “David vs. Goliath” scenarios and the strategies and innovations lawyers use — including litigation finance — to help level the playing field. This series is sponsored by Lake Whillans Litigation Finance. Tell us a bit about your background and practice. […]
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How Transactional Lawyers Can Better Serve (And Maintain) Their Clients
Sign up and join us for our CLE webinar. From importing your checklist to delivering the closing book, you can bolster client service throughout the…
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AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
How solo lawyers, midsize firms, and global large law firms have an opportunity to adjust the way they work.
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Law Firms Now Have A Choice In Their Document Comparison Software
Six months on since its launch, over 200 firms worldwide are now using Draftable Legal for accurate and reliable document comparison, including UK Top 50…
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Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls.
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Litigation Finance, Litigators, Sponsored Content
How To Build A Quality Litigation Finance Firm
When thinking about building a litigation finance company, it is important to attract the highest quality claims available. -
Silicon Valley, Sponsored Content
Silicon Valley Is A Paradigm For Litigation Finance
When I jokingly explained that Lake Whillans was not the Iron Bank of Braavos in my last column, I was pretty sure that that was the last article I would ever write about HBO programming. -
Litigators, Money, Sponsored Content
Lake Whillans Is NOT The Iron Bank Of Braavos
With all the hype surrounding the first episode of this season’s Game of Thrones, we figured it was time to dispel the rumors: Lake Whillans is NOT the Iron Bank. -
Intellectual Property, Litigation Finance
This Entrepreneur Nearly Lost His Company. Here’s How Litigation Finance Helped Him Fight Back
As much as the landscape for biotechnology startups has changed over the last decade, one thing that hasn’t changed is this: Intellectual property is the beating heart of a business. -
Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Litigators, Sponsored Content
Private Equity And Litigation Finance
Private equity firms share some common characteristics that make litigation finance a useful product within the industry. -
Litigators, Sponsored Content
The Cost Of Capital (And Other Concepts You Would Have Learned In Business School)
The cost of capital is particularly interesting in the context of litigation finance because it can be argued that a portfolio of claims should have a cost of capital equal to the risk free rate. To understand this argument, and why it’s not currently the case, let’s first explore some key concepts. -
Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
Venture Capital & Litigation Finance
Venture capitalists invest in early stage growth companies, typically in high technology industries, such as biotechnology, energy, or IT.