London-based Woodsford Litigation Funding Ltd. on Wednesday announced a $20 million investment deal with litigation boutique Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss—a move that comes less than a month after Woodsford opened its first U.S. outpost in Philadelphia. Describing the deal as a “global portfolio financing facility,” Woodsford and Lewis Baach said in a joint statement that …
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[Total: 0 Average: 0/5] The upcoming 4G and 5G spectrum auction is posed to be a huge boon for consumers over the coming years, with signal improving in major towns and cities, alongside rural locations. However, not all is well when it comes to the networks bidding to buy the spectrum. In particular, Three …
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-Written by Andrew Harris: The WLF represents a broad spectrum of the most respected names in the field of litigation as well as many others working in the wider legal fields. Among its supporters are international giants Coca Cola, HSBC, UNILEVER and Nokia. The WLF’s decision to hold their 5th annual forum in the United …
Companies that make or distribute opioid painkillers are facing a “tidal wave” of litigation as US officials seek to raise funds to fight the country’s addiction epidemic and punish those they accuse of fuelling the crisis. The number of government officials launching legal action against drugmakers and wholesalers has soared in the past year in …
By Malathi Nayak, Bloomberg BNA Patent litigation costs declined drastically from 2015 to 2017, as litigants controlled expenses and increasingly skipped courtrooms to challenge a patent’s validity at the Patent and Trademark Office, IP attorneys told Bloomberg BNA. The median overall cost for a patent infringement case with $1 million to $10 million at stake …
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The confidential settlement reached on June 28 between Beef Products Inc., and Disney-owned ABC News is not entirely a secret anymore. The report filed Tuesday by Walt Disney Co. does not specifically mention that the settlement is related to the BPI case, but it was the only settlement Disney disclosed in its quarterly earnings report …
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Retired NBA star Scottie Pippen’s divorce is on again! Two months after telling a judge in Fort Lauderdale that they were working on reconciling, the lawyers for the former Chicago Bulls star and Larsa Pippen, his Kardashian Klan confidante wife, just told the same judge the divorce is on again. ‘We’re going to be proceeding …
Marriage is one of life’s big milestones, but sadly for some it is not the fairytale ending they had hoped for. But for those going through a divorce in Burton and South Derbyshire there is a tiny silver lining to the cloud, as the Midlands has been named as one of the fastest places in …
Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian are coming close to agreeing on a custody arrangement for their daughter Dream. The big news from discussions however is that Chyna, 29, has a better income than Rob. It was reported by TMZ on Thursday that neither Chyna or Rob, 30, has requested child support but Rob would be …
Staying married for the kids? Alison Maloni decided not to do that and wrote about it. Here is her guest post, which offers her perspective on why it doesn’t make sense to stay in an unhappy married for the children. A Message to Parents Who Stay Married for the Children by Alison Maloni I …