Litigation Funding

Litigation Funding

Lisa A. Rickard

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), along with Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), introduced the Litigation Funding Transparency Act (LFTA), a landmark bill to help bring the multi-billion dollar litigation financing industry out of the shadows. This...

Corporate Counsel

Daniel Garrie | Law & Forensics LLC

Litigation has transformed over the past two decades from discovering documents in file cabinets to discovering a smoking gun in an email or Twitter posting. Nearly all information in today's digital world is created and maintained exclusively in electronic form. This deluge of data has...

Litigation Funding

Tiger Joyce | American Tort Reform Association

In January the New York Times scrutinized the increasingly influential lawsuit loan industry with a story entitled "Lawsuit Loans Add New Risk for the Injured." It brought significant if unwelcomed new attention to a growing group of litigation financing companies that had largely...