Perspectives From a Litigation Funder: The Case for Sensible Disclosure

Shutterstock The market for commercial litigation funding has exploded in the United States. Following years of successful funding relationships among law firms, litigants and claimants in more mature funding markets overseas, the U.S. legal market has seen professional litigation funders either import their methods, measures and access to capital to a budding market or otherwise …

The Duchess and a very dirty divorce: The scandalous life of the Duchess of Argyle

Margaret, Duchess of Argyll caused a scandal in the Sixties (Image: Chris Barham/Daily Mail /Rex) The proceedings ignited huge interest from a prurient public, with rumours of two government ministers, a member of the Royal Family and a Hollywood star being among the 88 men that the lively aristocrat was accused by her husband of …

Princess Diana never wanted a divorce — here's what changed her mind

Princess Diana never wanted to give up on her marriage to Prince Charles, not even after Charles publicly admitted to his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles. Here’s what finally changed her mind-or, should we say, “who.” When Lady Diana Spencer married the Prince of Wales in a fairytale wedding in the summer of 1981, she had …