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29 Mar 2021, 4:19 am by Peter Mahler
In a footnote, Judge Newson noted that, ‘[t]o the extent that other courts have extended Burford to state-law judicial dissolution claims, we disagree,” followed by citations to Friedman and Caudill. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 5:49 am by Above the Law
[Bloomberg Law News] * Burford Capital revenues top $1.1B. [read post]
4 Feb 2013, 12:16 am by Kevin LaCroix
Bogart helped co-found Burford in 2009, after serving as an attorney for the Cravath, Swaine & Moore law firm and as general counsel of Time Warner. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 2:12 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  In his November 24, 2015 post on Above the Law (here), David Lat summarizes his observations from a recent NYU Law School conference about Litigation Funding. [read post]
15 Sep 2024, 7:18 am by Kevin LaCroix
However, the SEC alleged, the vehicle did not provide such funding and did not enter agreements with law firms to do so. [read post]
22 Feb 2023, 1:07 pm by Dennis Crouch
  Some, as noted above, have even banned the practice at common law, though state courts have increasingly relaxed those rules in favor of regulation.[23]  Such laws are already on the books in Arkansas, Maine, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, some of which limit the amount and type of funding entirely.[24] At the Federal level, the U.S. [read post]
15 Jan 2018, 4:22 pm by Kevin LaCroix
”   Types of Litigated Matters Financed One particularly interesting aspect of the Law 360 survey noted above is what it showed about the survey respondents have been using litigation financing. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 12:14 am by Peter Mahler
(Read here,  here, and here prior posts about Burford abstention in dissolution cases.) [read post]
12 Apr 2015, 1:06 pm by Ron Friedmann
For example, litigation funder Lake Whillans writes a sponsored column at Above the Law and Corporate Counsel had a nice piece this month by Burford Capital called Litigation Finance 2.0: A Primer. [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 3:03 pm by Jamison Koehler
Environmental Protection Agency who then-Administrator Anne Gorsuch Burford wanted to get rid of. [read post]
21 May 2010, 1:26 pm by David Cosgrove
Notably, Section 409.4-509(l) is not simply directed at arbitration provisions in violation of federal jurisprudence.Moreover, as discussed above, “Missouri has a very strong policy in favor of providing a judicial forum for the claims of investors under the blue-sky laws. [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 3:54 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  The National Law Journal article also contains comments from a representative of Burford Capital, the largest litigation funding firm, “downplaying the likelihood that Wisconsin law could spur the adopting of similar transparency laws elsewhere,” and as saying that “we view this as an accidental outlier that is likely to change in due course once Wisconsin businesses realize that their legislators just overreached. [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 3:34 am by Peter Mahler
Cyrulnik further argued that, even if the District Court has jurisdiction, it nonetheless should abstain from hearing the case in favor of the Florida action based on three different abstention doctrines including the above-mentioned Burford abstention doctrine. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 4:08 pm by Kevin LaCroix
 Delaware’s Governor signed the bill into law on June 24, 2015. [read post]
29 Aug 2018, 4:23 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Working in litigation financing, according to the article, is “the hot new law job. [read post]