Personal Injury Law

Beyond Contingency - Litigation as investment asset
"Suppose Americans could fund litigation without contingency?"

NAM amicus brief in Calif. public-contingency case
As readers know, the California courts are considering an issue of high importance: whether government entities can hire private counsel on contingency fee to pursue public nuisance cases, which these days include ambitious ventures in regulation through litigation such as...

Commercial Litigation / IP
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THE CONTINGENCY FEE ALTERNATIVE FOR COSTLY LEGAL SERVICES
With legal fees and litigation costs soaring, small businesses unfortunately must opt to pay the high costs, or altogether forego pursuing potentially valuable claims because of the financial burden imposed...

Law - "Are Contingency-Fee Arrangement Between an Attorney General and a Private Law Firm Illegal"
Tobacco litigation. Asbestos litigation. Lead paint litigation. An interesting article today on Findlaw.com by Anthony J. Sebok, a Professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, titled "Should State Attorneys General Use Private Law Firms to...

Contingency Fees Preferred by Clients, Study Finds
The Manhattan Institute is a conservative think tank that pushes a tort-reform agenda as it attacks plaintiffs' attorneys for numerous evils, both real and perceived. One of the primary gripes tort-reformers have against plaintiffs' attorneys is that the contingency fee agreements used so prevalently in litigation--a legal fee agreement where the client pays a percentage of any recovery to the attorney for his services--unjustly exploit clients who cannot afford hourly attorneys' fees and thereby unjustly enrich attorneys at their expense...

Uniform Commercial Code and Contracts
Interstate commercial transactions and sale of goods in the United States

Mesothelioma Law Suit
Asbestos Exposure

$189 Million Settlement Reached in Slab Litigation
$189 Million Settlement Reached in Slab Litigation

Breakthrough Settlement Reached In Chinese Drywall Litigation
Chinese Drywall Litigation Breakthrough Settlement Reached