Category Archives: Legal Innovation
Community Fintech 11Onze Enters Litigation Funding for Housing Claims
On the back of its successful launch of 11Onze Recommends, Europe’s leading community fintech has added housing litigation to enhance its funding offer. 11Onze has also lowered the entry requirement for the product to € 10,000 (from € 25,000) to widen its access to more members. The housing claims are for housing disrepair, especially social housing disrepair.
LF Dealmakers Panel: Exploring Use Cases of Insurance Across the Litigation Landscape
A panel consisting of Rebecca Berrebi, Founder & CEO of Avenue 33, Daniel Bond, Senior VP of DUAL North America, Jarvis Buckman, Managing Partner at Leste, and Steven Penaro, Partner at Alston & Bird, discussed the intersection of insurance and litigation funding. The panel was moderated by Stephen Kyriacou, Managing Director & Senior Lawyer at Aon.
Sarah Lieber and Justin Brass Announce the Launch of JBSL Legal Finance
A post on LinkedIn announced the launch of a new legal finance company, JBSL, founded by Sarah Lieber and Justin Brass. The co-founders bring a wealth of experience to JBSL, as both Lieber and Brass have previously served as co-heads of Stifel’s Litigation Finance group for the past four years. Prior to their time at…
Darrow Raises $35M for AI Platform that Identifies Potential Class Action Lawsuits
As LFJ reported last week, the worldwide momentum behind class actions continues to gain steam, as countries like New Zealand look to implement formal class action regimes. With no signs of slowing down, legal technology companies are looking to provide tools to support law firms and funders, as they search for those cases with the…
Embracing Sustainability in Litigation Finance
Gian Marco Solas, Ph.D.2, is a qualified lawyer and academic, and currently serves as the Lead Expert at the BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre and in private practice, where he advises on the application of physics models in (antitrust) litigation and market & investment modeling worldwide.
Benefits of Litigation Financing for Debt Recovery in India
When looking to demonstrate the benefits of using litigation financing, it can often be easy to simply highlight its utility and effectiveness in isolation. However, for those unsure of whether to adopt a relatively new tool, it can be even more powerful to demonstrate the ways in which third-party funding is more useful than the…
Insights on Litigation Funding in Australia from Hartwell Funds
There is no doubt that the litigation funding industry is largely dominated by established global funders whose years of experience and vast reserves of capital allow them to take on the largest and highest value cases. However, it is always important to understand the perspectives of new and growing funders who are finding solid returns…
Combining ATE Insurance and Funding to Strengthen In-House Counsel
Litigation funding and litigation risk insurance, such as after-the-event (ATE) insurance, have both experienced significant growth in recent years as litigants look for tools to offset risk and ensure that they have the resources to see the legal process through to a conclusion. Together, third-party funding and ATE insurance represent a potent combination that may…
Four Ways Law Firms Can Use Litigation Finance
Expanding beyond the traditional scope of single case funding is a key priority for many litigation funders across the globe, with both portfolio financing and law firm funding becoming a key part of these business models. When it comes to discussions of law firm financing, it can often seem as if this is a broad…
Burford Highlights ‘Industry Standard’ for Legal Finance Valuation and Reporting
As the litigation finance industry continues to mature, there will naturally be an expectation that the industry should move towards standardized approaches and methodology. Reflecting this trend, Burford Capital’s CEO and CFO have recently published an article discussing their new valuation methodology for litigation finance investments, suggesting that “its widespread adoption seems inevitable”….
