Omni Bridgeway Investment Manager, Nathan Landis, and Nick Gallus, Special Counsel with law firm Lipman Karas, discuss a range of issues relating to investment treaties between states and other entities, in particular, the types of disputes that arise and the role of investment treaty arbitration to resolve these claims.

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Investment Treaty Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Finance

Bentham IMF Investment Manager and Legal Counsel, Stephanie Southwick, talks with founder Andre Gharakhanian of Silicon Legal Strategy about what it takes for startup companies to be successful and how litigation funding can help.

How Litigation Funding Helps Startups, Part 2

How Litigation Funding Helps Startups, Part 1

Bentham IMF Investment Manager and Legal Counsel, Sarah Tsou, talks with Professor Brian Fitzpatrick of Vanderbilt Law School about how third-party litigation funding serves as a private sector solution for enforcement of meritorious cases.  We also discuss the application of ethical rules and common misconceptions, and Professor Fitzpatrick makes the “conservative case” for litigation funding and how it provides a market solution for leveling the playing field among litigants and aligning incentives.  

The Conservative Case for Litigation Funding

Bentham IMF Chief Investment Officer-US, Allison Chock, talks with Enoch Liang, co-founder of LegalMation, a company which uses artificial intelligence to automate processes involving litigation tasks. Enoch explains how the tool can take a PDF of a legal complaint and analyze it to provide, within two minutes, an initial draft answer, affirmative defenses, targeted requests for production and interrogatories, and deposition notices. The tool also creates draft responses to discovery requests, including AI-suggested objections, delivering in one minute drafts that typically take attorneys four to six hours to produce.

Interview with Chief Strategy Officer and CoFounder of LegalMation, Enoch Liang

Bentham IMF investment manager and legal counsel, Jim Batson, chats with Bentham’s IP funding specialist, Sarah Tsou, about why funding is so useful for patent litigation, the factors she considers when evaluating IP cases for investment and the long-term impact funding is likely to have on patent litigation. 

Interview with Bentham IMF IP Funding Specialist, Sarah Tsou

Bentham IMF investment manager and legal counsel, Sarah Tsou, discusses patent litigation funding with Steven Cherny, a partner at Quinn Emanuel who has three decades of high-profile patent litigation under his belt, and has won some of the most important patent cases in the last decade.

Interview with Quinn Emanuel partner, Steve Cherny (Part Two)

Interview with Quinn Emanuel partner, Steve Cherny (Part One)

Bentham IMF investment manager and legal counsel, Jim Batson, chats with Bentham’s bankruptcy funding specialist, Ken Epstein, about the options litigation finance presents for parties with limited capital to pursue their high-value litigation claims and how it benefits trustees, receivers and debtors.

Interview with Bentham IMF Bankruptcy Funding Specialist, Ken Epstein

Bentham IMF investment manager and legal counsel, Jim Batson, talks with Nicolas F. Kajon, Co-Chair of Stevens & Lee LLP’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Department, Co-Chair of the firm’s Litigation Finance and Alternative Funding Group and a Member of its Litigation Group, about his experience negotiating multi-million-dollar agreements with litigation funders pertaining to both insolvency and other commercial litigation claims, and representing clients in funded matters.

Interview with Stevens & Lee Shareholder, Nicolas F. Kajon

The Beyond Hourly podcast, hosted by leading commercial litigation funder Bentham IMF, focuses on advancements in legal services that drive economic value for law firms and the clients they serve. The podcast features interviews with law firm partners, in-house counsel, law firm and corporate executives, litigation finance professionals and turnaround management specialists.

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