Sterno
MAY 2, 2022
You work to represent plaintiffs in mass tort, personal injury, and employment lawsuits, but defendants can have what feels like an endless coffer of resources to shut down your client’s case. Third-party litigation financing can help attorneys refocus on representing their clients without cost restraints.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 17, 2021
The plaintiffs relied on the Alien Tort Statute, an 18th-century law that permits foreigners to bring lawsuits in U.S. The lawsuit could go forward, the 9th Circuit reasoned, because Nestlé and Cargill made “major operational decisions” in the United States, and the “financing decisions … originated” there as well.
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Patently O
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. bankruptcy, class action, trademark, securities, and tort litigation, to the tune of $50 to $100 billion in investments annually. [10]
Conflict of Laws
APRIL 12, 2023
If damage caused by non-compliance with la Loi de Vigilance, any person with legitimate interest can seek reparation under tort law. Lastly, BNP’s code of conduct , states that it commits to limiting any environmental impact indirectly resulting from its financing or investment activities or directly from its own operations (p 31).
Conflict of Laws
JANUARY 10, 2022
3] Secondly, the challenge is how to finance mass claims, involving millions of affected users. Their differences are significant for the purposes of litigation financing in two respects: first the requirement to identify and “sign-up” claimants and secondly, the requirement for individualized assessment of damages.
SimplyLawJobs
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Many students, in general, can relate to the difficulty of managing a budget, when asked how she best manages her finances, Keeva shared that she ensures to prioritise the necessities such as food, bills, and petrol, then everything else secondary. Tip from a law student: “Choose your A Level subjects wisely!
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JULY 21, 2023
This report, which forms part of the Sabin Center’s broader Climate Law and Finance Initiative , provides a toolkit to help academics, attorneys, insurance practitioners, and industry regulators model (re)insurer climate litigation risk.
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