Category Archives: Legal Innovation
When Divorce Litigation Finance Turns Ugly

Protecting access to justice is a hallmark of the litigation finance industry. Divorce is no exception. Success stories rain in regarding instances where one party is being ‘jerked around’ with no access to capital. Litigation funders pride themselves on enabling access to justice, but what happens when a funder does its part and the couple…
Liti Capital Announces Staking Program

Switzerland-based Liti Capital has announced a new staking program on the Polygon Network. Liti Capital purchases interest in litigation assets to help claimants fund cases. If the case is successful, token holders earn a portion of the proceeds. Liti Capital’s new staking program offers an intermediary method of earning a return on investment during a…
Litigation Insurance is Not Just for Plaintiffs Anymore
Claimants in Brazil Seek Faster Rewards

Four years and three months; that is the average time it takes to be rewarded with justice in Brazil, according to research data released by Brazil’s National Council of Justice (CNJ). Four years to win a claim can then lead to a lifetime of seeking to execute any monetary judgements. Four years is a long…
Validity Launches New Fund to Support the Wrongfully Convicted

When people serve hard time for a crime that they did not commit, the entire societal fabric suffers. And when the innocent are eventually vindicated, oftentimes they face a difficult re-acclimation process back into normal life. Validity Finance has stepped in to help right these wrongs with a groundbreaking new fund.
Legal Finance and Legal Analytics

The impact of legal analytics will soon become priceless, according to a new report. As big law embraces the next generation of technology, adoption acceleration can be tracked via balance sheet line items. Big data sometimes can be a misnomer, but now more than ever, dashboard signals indicate the investment in technology may be paying…
Bribes, Grease Payments and Global Litigation Finance

Both competition law and consumer protection law focus on eliminating global marketplace manipulation. Deceptive acts and practices in many offshore businesses are byproducts of illegal bribes, or legal grease payments. Exclusionary price fixing of international virtual currency markets suggests that innovation is necessary to level the playing field. …
Is Litigation Finance Really so New?

Third parties funding legal cases is certainly not new. In fact, the practice has existed since the middle ages. Once called ‘champerty and maintenance,’ third party funding of claims was banished by much of the globe until just a few decades ago. Comparatively, legal funding isn’t that different than the types of third-party financing used…