
Litigation Funding Comes Of Age: Trends And Ethics
Litigation funding has quickly become a fixed feature of the legal landscape, so it behooves lawyers and law students to learn about it.
Litigation funding has quickly become a fixed feature of the legal landscape, so it behooves lawyers and law students to learn about it.
If you'd like to get your litigation funded, here's what funders seek.
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Increased scrutiny and regulation are unlikely to stop the growth of this booming field.
If -- or rather, when -- a recession hits, litigation finance is going to thrive.
Litigation finance is on the rise, so now's a good time to educate yourself.
Buoyed by a combination of shrinking corporate legal budgets and under-resourced startups seeking to protect their interests, litigation-finance options are proliferating.
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