Litigation Risk Transfer and Law Firm Financial Arrangements (original) (raw)

Legal Ethics, 2014

Abstract

By promoting greater alignment between law and capital, litigation financing has the potential to further escalate the substantial restructuring that is occurring throughout the legal profession. This article examines regulation of the relationship between litigation funders and lawyers in three common law jurisdictions: the United Kingdom; the United States; and Australia, against the backdrop of a sea change in the way in which legal services are being delivered. It argues that a broad prescriptive approach rather than proscriptive prohibitions are the best way to regulate the emerging relationship between law and capital

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