Susan Dunn of Harbour Litigation reports that her firm is starting to insist on law firms using technology for class actions that require funding, stating that they won’t accept people saying, ‘we’ve got a bunch of paralegals with Excel spreadsheets doing this on phone at the cost of £100 a head.” Read more.
The International Legal Finance Association (ILFA) has announced its new board of directors, its chairman, and the executive committee. Gary Barnett, Executive Director of ILFA, welcomed Neil Purslow, who co-founded Therium, as the new Chairman. The Executive Committee Officers include: Christopher DeLise of Delta Capital, Susan Dunn of Harbour Litigation Funding, Jack Neumark of Fortress Investment Group LLC, Andrew Saker of Omni Bridgeway and Marcel Wegmüller of Nivalion.
Tory backbencher Kevin Hollinrake has called on the government to close the “loopholes” that have allowed UK professional services firms to continue carrying out bankruptcy proceedings on behalf of the Russian state. The Conservative party MP accused accountancy giant Grant Thornton, litigation funder Harbour, and London law firm CMS of undermining the UK’s efforts to “restrict the Kremlin’s access to funds,” by carrying out bankruptcy proceedings against Russian oligarch Alexey Motylev. A spokesperson for Harbour noted that the litigation funder had not been involved in the case since June 2021.
Four-fifths (80 per cent) of UK law firms said they are planning to offer various types of “no win, no fee” payment schemes in the next 18 months, while 89 per cent said they plan to make use of litigation funding, according to a poll of 200 law firm partners conducted by litigation funder Harbour.
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