Tag: litigation

April 3, 2024

As a general rule, court proceedings and the related documents are open to the public. There is an important reason for that: justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done. But what if that would […]

September 1, 2021

A divorce or legal separation doesn’t require a court hearing to decide how to divide up the property, who gets custody of the kids, and how often visitation can happen. In fact, litigating a divorce in court is a last […]

December 4, 2018

A law firm that claimed professional objectors were extorting fees in class action lawsuits will be able to introduce evidence supporting the allegation as a result of an Illinois appeals court decision. The First District Appellate Court of Illinois ruled […]

April 11, 2018

Legislation signed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker last week requires all third-party litigation funding deals to be disclosed—even if a discovery request has not been made for that information. Wisconsin Act 235 requires litigants “provide to the other parties any […]

May 27, 2016

A former lawyer who became a Silicon Valley entrepreneur acknowledges he paid roughly $10 million to finance Hulk Hogan’s winning lawsuit against Gawker and says it’s not the only case he has financed. Peter Thiel tells the New York Times […]

February 29, 2016

For a long time, the track to success for lawyers was to get into a BigLaw firm and make one’s way to partnership. Fortunately, attitudes about this have changed recently. Still, it would go too far to say that lots […]

February 22, 2016

Litigation may be a fact of life when you run a small business, but that doesn’t mean small business owners don’t want to avoid it as much as possible. The bad news is that the majority of the litigation risk […]