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Litigation Financing Companies

Post by Law Student 2848 » Fri Oct 03, 2014 10:06 am

Does anyone know anything about jobs at litigation financing companies? I have found a few opportunities at companies/firms that do this type of work and can't decide if they are great opportunities or something to avoid.

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Re: Litigation Financing Companies

Post by tww909 » Fri Oct 03, 2014 2:18 pm

what kind of companies are we talking about here? commercial lit financing companies like burford or bentham would probably have a lot of potential upside and would expose you to some really high level lit/clients. on the hand consumer legal funding companies like oasis are little more than payday lenders for shitlaw clients.

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Post by gfd973 » Sun Oct 05, 2014 9:01 am

tww909 wrote:what kind of companies are we talking about here? commercial lit financing companies like burford or bentham would probably have a lot of potential upside and would expose you to some really high level lit/clients. on the hand consumer legal funding companies like oasis are little more than payday lenders for shitlaw clients.
TCR.

I'd also add that landing a job at Burford et al is pretty contingent on you having some actual litigation experience at a big firm because what you're doing is essentially treating litigation as an asset/liability on a company's balance sheet. They want to know that you have a good handle on the intrinsic value of the litigation, or at least how to model it. People ideally suited for this stuff probably worked in finance before law school and then in litigation afterwards for a few years.

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Re: Litigation Financing Companies

Post by Hutz_and_Goodman » Sun Oct 05, 2014 10:31 am

I'd be very interested in hearing from someone with experience in litigation financing. My guess is that this will be a growing area in the next few decades.

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Re: Litigation Financing Companies

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I worked at one of the big litigation finance firms during law school. I worked with them because I had a solid connection to one of the directors. Had a great time and thought it was quite interesting. Other guy they had was a Yalie, 2nd Circuit and SDNY clerk. On the other hand, I think there are some lower-level positions (numbers crunching) for which the hiring standards are a little less extreme. I don't really know what other questions you have but maybe I can address. They were growing when I was there, so I worked sort of on everything.

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Re: Litigation Financing Companies

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I worked at one of the big litigation finance firms during law school. I worked with them because I had a solid connection to one of the directors. Had a great time and thought it was quite interesting. Other guy they had was a Yalie, 2nd Circuit and SDNY clerk. On the other hand, I think there are some lower-level positions (numbers crunching) for which the hiring standards are a little less extreme. I don't really know what other questions you have but maybe I can address. They were growing when I was there, so I worked sort of on everything.
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I worked at one of the big litigation finance firms during law school. I worked with them because I had a solid connection to one of the directors. Had a great time and thought it was quite interesting. Other guy they had was a Yalie, 2nd Circuit and SDNY clerk. On the other hand, I think there are some lower-level positions (numbers crunching) for which the hiring standards are a little less extreme. I don't really know what other questions you have but maybe I can address. They were growing when I was there, so I worked sort of on everything.
For the more entry level positions are there opportunities to do good work? And does it seem like you can move up in the firm over the years? Or are you more limited based on your background?

tww909 wrote:what kind of companies are we talking about here? commercial lit financing companies like burford or bentham would probably have a lot of potential upside and would expose you to some really high level lit/clients. on the hand consumer legal funding companies like oasis are little more than payday lenders for shitlaw clients.
I know you mentioned a few, but what if you’re talking firms like BlackRobe Capital, Burford Capital, Fulbrook Capital Management, Gerchen Keller Capital, Juridica Capital Management, and Parabellum Capital? Are these solid career paths? Or will it make it tough to ever transition to more traditional legal jobs?

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Re: Litigation Financing Companies

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:20 pm

One company I have heard that is hiring and great place to work is, TownCenter Partners close to dc. http://www.yourtcp.com

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Re: Litigation Financing Companies

Post by Subban_Fan » Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:41 pm

Legalist looks cool. Started by a 20 year old Harvard dropout. She's got some serious backers and I think got into Y-Combinator.

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