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Kirk Hartley
May 19, 20114 min read
Litigation Funding Seminar for International Association – June 25 – Fordham Law School
Litigation funding for international arbitration takes center stage on June 25 for a New York State Bar Association seminar at Fordham...
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Kirk Hartley
Jan 18, 20111 min read
Litigation Loans – One More Part of the Story from the Series by the NYT and Citizens for Publ
This past Sunday’s NYT brought this latest article in a series on litigation funding. The story, in short, covers the the high price of ...
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Kirk Hartley
Dec 16, 20101 min read
ABA Opens a Working Group to Study Litigation Funding – Comments Invited
Susan Beck from AmLaw reports here on the ABA creating a working group to look at litigation funding. The ABA announcement is here....
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Kirk Hartley
Dec 6, 20101 min read
Litigation Funding in Divorce Cases – The Next Chapter in the NYT Series on Litigation Funding
Yesterday’s Sunday NYT included this front page article by Binyamin Appelbaum. The article presents the latest chapter in an ongoing...
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Kirk Hartley
Nov 16, 20101 min read
Litigation Funding – Series of Articles Started by the NYT and The Center for Public Integrity
Here is the first article in a promised series on litigation funding. A note at the end of the article states: "This project was...
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Kirk Hartley
Jul 8, 20102 min read
New Opinion Relating to Litigation Funding, Joint-Interest and Legal Privilege
This AmLaw article by Andrew Longstreth addresses a new opinion on privilege in the context of case with litigation-funding in place. The...
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Kirk Hartley
May 28, 20101 min read
Litigation Funders – Not Quite Rock Stars, But the Cover of AmLaw’s Litigation 2010 is P
Dr. Hook described when he sang about the status achieved from appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone, but litigation funders Selvyn...
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Kirk Hartley
May 20, 20101 min read
Litigation Funders Move Towards Whistleblower Cases
New York Times ran this interesting article by David Kocienewski on litigation funders moving towards buying interests in IRS whistle...
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Kirk Hartley
May 12, 20101 min read
Banks in Australia Face Massive Billion Dollar Class Actions Over Excessive Fees – Litigation
Courtesy of a friend in Australia, note this Sydney Morning Herald article by Adele Ferguson and Michael West on huge new billion...
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Kirk Hartley
May 10, 20101 min read
Litigation Funding Changing The Game to Open Access to Courts in Australia; RAND Litigation Funding
D & O Diary reports on and links to a new NERA study of the rapidly increasing rate of securities class actions in Australia. Of note, a...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 22, 20102 min read
RAND’s ICJ Hosting a Great Looking May 2010 Seminar on Litigation Financing
Following up on the same kind of conference last May, RAND’s Institute for Civil Justice is hosting another great looking seminar with...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 10, 20104 min read
“Be Careful What You Wish For In Litigation” – Might that Rule Apply to the Iqbal
At a recent asbestos litigation conference, one of the speakers reminded everyone of the old maxim to " be careful what you wish for" ...
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Kirk Hartley
Jan 21, 20101 min read
More Litigation Funding News
Another litigation funding business is out there – this one (Arca) is said to have $ 110 million and a focus on Silicon Valley....
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Kirk Hartley
Jan 18, 20107 min read
Major Bankers and Financiers, Litigation and “Litigation Reform”
With today being a holiday in the US for Dr. King’s birthday, I decided to take a holiday on the usual torts in favor of a little...
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Kirk Hartley
Nov 25, 20091 min read
The US Chamber of Commerce Does NOT Like Litigation Funding, and Pause to Reflect
This prior post referred to a then-upcoming seminar and mentioned the question: what does the US Chamber of Commerce think about...
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Kirk Hartley
Oct 22, 20092 min read
New Opinion in Australia on Registrations for Litigation Funding and Class Actions
Courtesy of Mondaq and Google, I encountered this article from AU law firm Middelton’s regarding a new appellate opinion in Australia on...
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Kirk Hartley
Oct 8, 20092 min read
New Litigation Investment Fund Expected to Complete IPO in October – Burford Capital, Ltd.
The previously-mentioned London asbestos conference included a presentation regarding a new £200 million litigation investment fund that...
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Kirk Hartley
Oct 7, 20092 min read
Contingency Fees in Europe – Spain’s Supreme Court Allows Contingency Fees and Thus Incr
I’m back to work after enjoying about 10 days of travel in Europe. Each day of the trip revolved around law in one way or the other and...
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Kirk Hartley
Jul 12, 20091 min read
Tort Litigation Industry – What the the Plaintiff’s Side Is Talking About
PointofLaw (Walter Olson) has a post here with a link to the online convention brochure for the the American Association for Justice,...
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