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The topic of litigation funding has graced the front pages of America’s legal journals and publications since its arrival in the U.S. marketplace.
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Friday Funding Series: Why the Demand for Litigation Funding Has Increased
What’s driving increased demand for litigation funding? Jim Batson explains in part 4 of our Friday Funding Series.
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Litigation Funders: Champions or Champertous?
How is litigation funding possible in states with active champerty statutes? We explain how it works in NY.
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Friday Funding Series: Portfolio Funding for Law Firms
How can law firms smooth cash flow while handling multiple cases on contingency? Jim Batson explains in segment 3 of Bentham’s Friday Funding Series.
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Companies Engaging a Wider Variety of Lawyers and Law Firms to Handle their Disputes, Survey Reveals
Norton Rose recently published the results of its 2017 litigation trends annual survey, which highlighted several trends that underscore the importance of managing disputes economically.
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Cost of Litigation Finance Unlikely to Shift as Litigation Funding Industry Expands
A rising demand for litigation funding from law firms and litigants, coupled with a surge in outside investment into the industry, has fueled the rapid expansion of the U.S. litigation finance market.
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Friday Funding Series: Leveraging Litigation to Obtain Working Capital
In part 2 of our Friday Funding series, New York Investment Manager Jim Batson explains how law firms and claimants can benefit from utilizing litigation funding for working capital.
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Disclosure of Funding in Class Actions Makes Sense
Earlier this year, the influential U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California grappled with whether civil litigants should be forced to disclose litigation funding in any case.
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Friday Funding Series: How Litigation Funding Provides Access to Justice
In the first of this 6-part video series by Lawline, Bentham IMF’s Jim Batson participates on a panel discussion with Professor Brad Wendel of Cornell Law School and Evan Fried, a Principal at Greybridge Capital LLC.
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Making Rational Financial Choices in Litigation
Litigation funding can provide claimants and their lawyers with the resources necessary to avoid making adverse decisions that can reduce the value of their claims and prematurely end meritorious cases.
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The Modern Evolution of Litigation Funding
During the last 16 years, Bentham IMF has been involved in the growth of third-party litigation funding in commercial litigation hot spots around the globe.
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Bentham’s Support for Whistleblowers Can Help Expose Government Waste and Fraud
Blowing the whistle on fraudulent conduct doesn’t have to mean sacrificing your financial security. Learn how Bentham IMF’s non-recourse financing can help.
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Law Firm Partners as Asset Managers? How Applying Asset Management Tactics Can Improve Your Legal Practice
An asset management approach to litigation allows law firm partners to spend less time worrying about how to cover legal expenses and more time doing what they do best: being lawyers.
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The Benefits of Using Litigation Funding Over Litigation Insurance
Litigation funding and litigation insurance are sometimes compared as ways to help litigants reduce their risk when bringing contingency fee-based claims.
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Bentham Urges Rules Committee to Reject Chamber’s Proposed New Requirement For Federal Cases
The U.S. Chamber again seeks to amend the FRCP to allow for automatic disclosure of litigation funding agreements. In our response, we explain why their request should be denied by the Rules Committee.
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Litigation Funding and the Psychology of the Billable Hour
Litigation funding can provide lawyers and law firms with an effective alternative to one of the thorniest business challenges they may face — the billable hour.
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How Litigation Funding Fills the Gaps Where AFAs Fall Short
Sometimes there is a “tradeoff” to entering an alternative fee arrangements. And sometimes that tradeoff results in a failure to maximize the value of the litigation claims.
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Why Big Law Litigators Are Making the Move to the Litigation Finance Industry
One of the key benefits for those who seek funding from Bentham IMF is the experience offered by its team of highly skilled litigation experts.
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How to Get Your Case Financed: Closing and Monitoring a Litigation Finance Transaction
In our final installment, we will review key terms to take into consideration when faced with the all-important funding agreement.
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How to Get Your Case Financed: Presenting a Matter for Funding
Our third installment of this four-part blog series on how to get a case funded will focus on the do-or-die moment for an investment: the diligence process.
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