INSIGHT: How Litigation Funders Determine Which Legal Matters to Fund

摘要

Therium Capital Management CEO Eric Blinderman explains how successful litigation funders determine which litigation to fund and how they avoid investing in fraudulent matters, like the recent case of an attorney swindling a litigation funding company out of thousands of dollars. A recent federal grand jury indictment in the Southern District of New York raised eyebrows within the litigation funding industry. According to theindictment, an attorney attempted to swindle a litigation funding company out of thousands of dollars. That in and of itself probably did not raise many eyebrows. What surely did, however, was the fact that the attorney was successful