A Rising Tide Lifting Seaworthy Boats In Litigation Finance
Litigation finance is growing rapidly and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon.
What Does It Take To Start A Hedge Fund Or Litigation Finance Fund?
Starting a fund is very difficult and most funds fail, especially today.
alt.legal: If Money is Speech, Then Crowdfund Your Favorite Public Interest Lawsuit
A new venture offers citizens, lawyers and non-lawyers alike, a way to participate in important courtroom battles.
Variety Fuels Billion-Dollar Litigation Finance Funds Of Tomorrow
Litigation funding is an unsettled environment, and there's plenty of room for innovation and new ideas.
Tort Reform And The Litigation Finance Business
As Republicans take control, let's consider how tort reform would affect the growing litigation finance industry.
Daniel Katz Launches Fin [Legal] Tech
It’s a big challenge to organize a day-long legal technology conference—but it’s not every day that organizers find themselves competing with five million people pouring into their venue. The inaugural Fin [Legal] Tech conference, held November 4 at the Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology, started at 7:30 a.m.—as planes, trains, cars and feet […]
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Forget Where’s The Beef? Where Is The Alpha?!
What is "attribution analysis," and why do lawyers need to know about it?
Non-Sequiturs: 06.17.16
* A plea to strike down Mississippi's "Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act," which gives special privileges to opponents of gay marriage. [Bloomberg View] * Not every litigation financier is Peter Thiel, and I think we are all pretty happy about that. [Wall Street Journal] * What can Judge Maryanne Trump Barry teach her brother about the federal judiciary? [Real Clear Politics] * Musings on why some law firms still haven't matched the Cravath pay bump. [Law and More] * These are the facts people need to know about gun laws. [Slate] * This is what estate planning attorneys wished you knew about death and dying. [Forbes]
Beyond Biglaw: Trust Is All We Have
Clients are not the only audience whose trust litigators must win, as columnist Gaston Kroub explains.
Non-Sequiturs: 03.10.15
* "A senior Queens judge allowed a bawdy Viagra-themed light-switch cover to remain in his courtroom for at least a year — even after a female lawyer complained that it was inappropriate for court." Obviously, there will be a contingent trying to write this off as "just a joke" and asking everyone to "relax," but seriously, how is ANY joke lightswitch cover appropriate in a courtroom? Let alone a penis switch. [NY Post]
* Teen burglars started sniffing the powder they stole thinking it was cocaine. Instead, it was cremated ashes. It's part Cocaine Cowboys and part Six Feet Under. [The Smoking Gun]
* No one can predict how much tuition will rise over the next several years. But this offers the next best thing: an interactive tool to chart how much each school's tuition has changed over the last few years. [Bar Exam Stats]
* We've featured some of Richard Hsu's interviews in this space. The Recorder sat down with the Shearman & Sterling partner to discuss his podcast. [The Recorder]
* Elie went on HuffPo today to discuss the phenomenon of law schools dropping the LSAT. [HuffPo Live]
* Former Wilmer litigator and 10th Circuit clerk John Ford has a new book out called The Cipher
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Is London A Sunnier Clime For Litigation Finance?
Litigation finance is gaining acceptance in the U.S., but in the more innovative U.K. market, the practice is "booming."
New Opportunities For Entrepreneurial Litigators In Biglaw
Biglaw litigators have found that litigation finance now permits them to provide legal services to small or start-up enterprises operating in emerging industries and technologies that have been sidelined by unfair business dealings.
Non-Sequiturs: 01.29.15
* An interview with Judge Paul Cassell, the former jurist representing the woman accusing Professor Alan Dershowitz. Will this be the face of Dershowitz's reversal of fortune? (See what I did there?) [The Careerist] * Indiana is making moves to end litigation financing. If you want to see a naked attempt by deep pockets to influence the law, read this story. Or, you know, any story about lobbying ever. [LFC 360] * For people who kvetched that their precious feelings get hurt when Staci writes about sexism in the legal industry, it may warm your hearts to learn that, according to a UC Hastings Law study, STEM careers are just as bad. Yay? [Mashable] * Oh and finance is the same way. [Law and More] * Elementary school conducting poop inspections. Holy s**t. [Huffington Post] * Anti-vaccination parents have brought measles roaring back to ruin Disneyland vacations. Is it time to start suing them for turning their kids into plague vectors? [Forbes] * SpaceX drops its lawsuit against the Air Force. [Slate] * If you're interested in Sports Law, Penn Law is hosting a symposium on February 13. Get your tickets at this link. [Penn Law Sports Law Symposium] * Practice alert: The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution has issued a new set of rules. For any general counsel out there plagued with cross-border business-to-business disputes, check them out. [What About Clients?] * Our friend Sidney Powell's book, Licensed to Lie (affiliate link), earned a starring role at the Loretta Lynch confirmation hearings. Check out the questioning below. [YouTube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54uoOH_qh7U&feature=youtu.be
Idiosyncratic Risk In Legal Claim Portfolios
A company that invests and holds investments in legal claims on a portfolio rather than an individual basis bears substantially less risk, and therefore requires substantially less compensation for investing and holding a legal claim.
Non-Sequiturs: 01.22.15
* A representative for Amal and George Clooney has denied the rumors of an impending divorce plastered all over the newsstands this week. "This story is totally made up in order to sell their magazines." Now we can go back to wondering when Amal is planning to sue President Obama. [Aceshowbiz] * Roe v. Wade is 42 years old (or 126 trimesters) today. How much of the original holding is left? Not that much actually. [TBT Legal] * Some 1st or 2nd year in D.C. is banging another associate and felt obliged to give us an anonymous blow-by-blow account. Think of it as a Penthouse Letter to the ABA Journal. [Reddit] * Speaking of Penthouse, the affidavit from the Prince Andrew/Alan Dershowitz sex scandal is just bats**t amazeballs. Check out the full document on the next page. [South Florida Lawyers] * "Jews in the U.K. never won a reported discrimination case against non-Jewish defendants." I mean, who'd have thought the country that brought us The Merchant of Venice would have issues with Jews? [Tablet] * Americans decry European laws prohibiting certain kinds of hate speech. But Professor Faisal Kutty explains that liberal societies have their own secular sacred cows even if they don't want to admit it. [Al Jazeera] * If you presume the clientele for litigation financing services are helpless, you're selling them short. [LFC 360] * The latest threat to unsuspecting Americans: zombie debt! [Public Justice] * NYU admits it probably should have told the police when a student allegedly lit a classmate on fire and videotaped it. Ugh. NYU's gone soft. In my day, we set each other on fire all the time and we liked it dammit! [Chronicle of Higher Education]