We’re honored to introduce The 2025 Lawdragon 100 Global Leaders in Litigation Finance. This is our 6th guide dedicated to the art and hustle of litigation finance – honoring the entrepreneurs who enable litigators and law firms to extend their reach in the types of matters they take on, their strategic pathways, and the enhanced access...
There is a widespread and now well-known phenomenon affecting the present young generation of arbitration practitioners: that is, law students on track to becoming qualified lawyers or already qualified lawyers – sometimes multi-qualified lawyers – who accumulate internship after internship, for periods at times stretching beyond 3-4 years. While this reality does not appear to...
Sharp decline in confidence in judiciary is among the largest Gallup has ever measured LONDON — Americans’ confidence in their nation’s judicial system and courts dropped to a record-low 35% in 2024. The result further sets the U.S. apart from other wealthy nations, where a majority, on average, still expresses trust in an institution that...
Mayer Brown defense partner Michael E. Lackey said litigation finance “was just anathema” to him about a decade ago. “Anything that makes it easier for people to sue my clients is something I don’t want,” Lackey said in an interview. Now, “virtually every large law firm that does litigation probably has a funded case somewhere”—including...
Commerce international. La route transcaspienne, qui relie la Chine à l’Europe par le Kazakhstan, le Caucase, la Turquie et la mer Noire, connaît un véritable essor depuis la guerre en Ukraine. Mais les problèmes d’infrastructure et de logistique demeurent. En janvier, l’UE et ses partenaires ont annoncé s’engager à hauteur de 10 milliards d’euros pour...
Alternative legal services providers offer legal services to law firms, dispensing everything from technology to project management to litigation support. (Image from Shutterstock) As artificial intelligence continues to dominate the legal field, many law firms are finding relief through alternative legal services providers. Just after the pandemic began, Benson Varghese began experimenting with ways to...
Politics is apparently affecting the fate of people caught up in the criminal justice system, according to a study by the Death Penalty Information Center. Elected state supreme court justices in Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio affirm twice as many death sentences during an election year than in any other year, according to the report, Lethal Election:...
In Hong Kong, two British judges who sat on the Court of Final Appeal, the highest court in Hong Kong, have resigned. This is another worrying sign regarding the health and independence of the judiciary in the Special Administrative Region. Lawrence Collins and Jonathan Sumption were among the few foreign judges who served on a...
Legal malpractice is costing law firms big bucks, and it’s expected to fetch even more soon.
Conservative says Supreme Court can expand workload but feels the strain when litigants seek emergency intervention before legal process runs its normal course. AUSTIN, Texas—Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in a swing through the Texas capital Friday, had plenty to say to a regional conference of judges and lawyers about his job at the Supreme Court, a...