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Managing the Cost of Your Dispute
Verity Jackson-Grant• October 5th, 2018
Verity Jackson-Grant discusses how to identify the most commercial route to recovery Litigation funding is often hailed as the most effective risk transfer tool to finance a claim. However, for many businesses that simply isn’t the case. This may seem … Continued
Litigation funding and insurance for defendants
Verity Jackson-Grant• September 24th, 2018
While most funding and insurance products have been designed with the claimant in mind, there are solutions that can be applied to defence situations. As with claimant cases, it is important to consider whether the aim is to relieve the … Continued
TheJudge’s September Insights
TheJudge• September 17th, 2018
TheJudge’s Response to the Government’s Post-Implementation Review of Part 2 of LASPO Given the significant impact the implementation of LASPO has had on the After the Event (ATE) insurance market, we felt it important to share our experience with the … Continued
How lawyers can avoid falling foul of their SRA obligations
Verity Jackson-Grant• September 6th, 2018
As the market has evolved, the ways in which a claimant might fund their legal fees has become more sophisticated. This, in turn, has made it increasingly difficult for lawyers to provide appropriate advice on the options available without the … Continued
Matthew Amey comments in The Law Society Gazette on the role litigation funding plays in competition disputes
Matthew Amey• August 9th, 2018
Following the announcement that Weightmans, Matrix Chambers and Kings Chambers have set up an ‘opt-out’ class action over alleged anti-competitive behaviour by European truck manufacturers, Matthew Amey gives his views in The Law Society Gazette’s article entitled ‘Litigation funders back … Continued
Boom in litigation funding has transformed the dispute resolution landscape
Verity Jackson-Grant• May 24th, 2018
There is little doubt that the growth of the litigation funding market coupled with, or perhaps fuelled by, developments in costs regulation and the increased focus on the management of corporate legal spend has fundamentally changed the dispute resolution landscape. … Continued
DBA insurance and CFA insurance for patent litigators in the UK – Are you up to speed?
Verity Jackson-Grant• May 22nd, 2018
DBA and CFA Insurance (collectively known as WIP insurance) are products designed to provide a law firm with a guaranteed fee realisation when offering an alternative fee arrangement. Whether a CFA or DBA, the insurer indemnifies the law firm for … Continued
How litigation insurance can reduce write offs whilst opening the door to significant success fees
Matthew Amey• May 22nd, 2018
The biggest complaint that lawyers make about the third party funding market is the difficulty they experience in securing an acceptable offer for their client, specifically how that translates into wasted fee earner time and, more often than not, client … Continued
Litigation funding: what you need to know about this fast-growing business
Verity Jackson-Grant• May 18th, 2018
Litigation funding has been growing in prominence in recent years, and up-and-coming litigators need to ensure they are up to speed with what is becoming and increasingly influential factor in the market. Click here to read Verity Jackson-Grant’s article originally … Continued
