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30 Nov 2016, 12:35 am
Casting aside traditional prohibitions on champerty and maintenance, the United Kingdom has of late thrown open its doors to “litigation finance” enterprises that fund legal actions as an investment in exchange for a share of the proceeds. [read post]
25 May 2016, 4:56 am
How often do you get to think about champerty and maintenance these days? [read post]
27 Aug 2009, 6:11 am
The recovery agent was also found guilty of champerty, that is, negotiating to receive a share of the proceeds of litigation in which he had no interest.The case concerned a 51-year-old unemployed mother who agreed to the recovery agent’s deal to have the solicitor, Ms. [read post]
26 Mar 2018, 3:05 am
Activist high court, no-fault PPI auto insurance, assignment-of-benefits (AOB) claims helped Florida win top Judicial Hellhole ranking from American Tort Reform Foundation [Amy O’Connor, Insurance Journal] Maybe getting people interested in the age-old ethical dangers of champerty and maintenance would be easier if litigation finance were framed as a Chamber of Commerce vs. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 10:26 am
See my interest in the Champerty Act and legislation that’s still in force but not included in the normal indices of acts: 1275 and the Business of Law. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 7:32 pm
Historically, champerty was against the public policy, and champerty agreements were found to be void. . . . [read post]
24 Aug 2009, 6:13 pm
For a talk at an upcoming ethics conference at the University of Akron School of Law, I decided to write about the Ohio Supreme Court's Rancman opinion, which not only rejected litigation funding as champerty and maintenance, but used rather hostile language to do so and utterly failed to weigh the merits of the practice. [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 8:59 am
These prohibitions included those directed at conspiracy, maintenance, champerty, and embracery. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 2:23 pm
The court in Centurion also discussed whether there were proper consents to changes of attorneys, proper assignments, and the issue of champerty. [read post]
27 Aug 2011, 7:24 pm
The would-be class action lawsuit, filed in North Carolina, alleged that a litigation funding company violation a consumer finance statute, engaged in unfair and deceptive practices, violated usury laws and laws against champerty and maintenance, and asserted other claims. [read post]
24 Dec 2007, 8:44 am
I'm not entirely clear what happened to the maintenance and champerty, but I'm beginning to suspect that Maintenance went off and married a pipefitter in Toledo, while Champerty is sleeping under a bridge with a bottle in a brown paper bag.H/T Tyler Cowen [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 9:16 am
And the Champerty Act? [read post]
14 Mar 2022, 8:40 am
Tony Sebok has posted to SSRN Going Bare in the Law of Assignments: When is an Assignment Champertous?. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 2:45 pm
Traditionally, the law of champerty and maintenance has, with few exceptions, prohibited the outright selling of claims to third parties. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 2:45 pm
Traditionally, the law of champerty and maintenance has, with few exceptions, prohibited the outright selling of claims to third parties. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 11:04 pm
Some fans of entrepreneurial lawyering in the academy and elsewhere have sought to portray rules against barratry and champerty as wrongheaded survivals of a much older approach to the role of the legal profession. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 3:30 am
To make sense of these discrepancies, Professors Horton and Weisbord distinguish the differences in court opinions with two ideas: the “litigiousness” theory of champerty and the “interference” theory of champerty. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 7:40 am
[NYLJ] Tags: champerty, litigation finance Related posts Update: staking the Shinnecocks (0) Update: lawsuit-funding cos. shun Ohio (0) Update: Forbes on Lodi mess (0) New at Point of Law (0) New at Point of Law (5) [read post]
10 Nov 2015, 10:02 pm
Blake Farenthold, The Hill] Tags: arbitration, asbestos, champerty, litigation finance, Mikal Watts, privacy, sportsLiability roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 3:05 am
Top Court Rules Litigation Finance Transaction Violates Champerty Doctrine” [Kevin LaCroix, Alison Frankel on Justinian Capital SPC v. [read post]
