2018 Litigation Forecast: Will SCOTUS Transform Patent Review?
As the new year dawns, SCOTUS ponders the administrative review process for patents at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Are You Being Proactive or Reactive to Your Client's Needs?
In a profession that is notorious for being resistant to change, this survey is a yearly reminder of what in-house counsel deem important as well as a guide of how to tweak your approach to meet client needs.
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Friday Funding Series: Be the Best Counselor You Can Be by Giving Your Clients More Financing Options
If you’re not presenting this financing option to your clients, are you really being the best counselor you can be?
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Investors Take Notice of Litigation Funders’ Expertise and Successes, Driving Interest in the Asset Class
As the Wall Street Journal reported, established funders have substantial capital, and a number of new investors and funding companies have been entering the market.
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Friday Funding Series: Litigation Funding as a Corporate Finance Tool
Do you have all the necessary tools to stay competitive in today’s legal market? Read more to find out.
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Ethical Litigation Funding in Texas
As the largest commercial litigation funding company in Texas, Bentham IMF is often asked by attorneys in the Lone Star State about specific ethics issues and their relation to funding.
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Litigators Point to Litigation Finance as a Useful and Important Option for Clients
Stevens & Lee P.C. attorneys Eric Robinson and Daniel Huyett urge litigators to discuss litigation finance in an article published by Law360 today, describing it as “a subject that litigators ignore at the risk of a client relationship.”
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Finding Funding in Three Simple Steps
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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