An explanation of third-party commercial litigation financing (also known as alternative or external dispute funding), addressing appropriate situations for its use, ethical concerns, the funder’s ...

America’s private retirement system is one of the great successes of a market-based economy. Employer-sponsored retirement ...

Litigation finance involves investing money against legal or regulatory risk. [1] In a typical litigation finance investment, a funder deploys investment capital, and its return is determined with ...

In times of economic uncertainty, one budget line item to receive immediate scrutiny may be legal spend. After all, certain legal work may be delayed without any immediate consequences. But this is ...

While other types of litigation can give rise to joint defense groups, they are particularly prevalent in patent litigation, write Robert P. Latham and John M. Jackson. Joint defense groups form in ...

Law firms today possess access to a wider and deeper collection of technological tools than any prior generation. Within this “golden age of legal technology,” 1 one of the most impactful innovations ...

This Article analyzes over 89,000 patents litigated over a twenty-year period to determine how the number of office actions to allowance during prosecution impacts rates of invalidity during ...

Clear explanation of kinds of lawyers, how their roles differ, and why choosing the right one matters when a legal issue ...