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DLA Piper

Litigation Funding Tax and Retaliatory Tax: Top Points from the Latest JCT Scores

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The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) on June 22, 2025, released tables providing revenue estimates for provisions of the recent Senate Committee on Finance bill language (JCX-29-25) as well as those of the comparable House...more

Cooley LLP

UK Civil Justice Council Publishes Review of Litigation Funding

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The Civil Justice Council (CJC) has published its highly anticipated final report on the regulation and development of litigation funding in England and Wales. This comprehensive report addresses the implications of the UK...more

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Civil Justice Council calls for overhaul of English litigation funding and lawyer fees arrangements

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On June 2, 2025, the Civil Justice Council (“Council”)—a public body that reviews and makes recommendations to the UK Government about the English civil justice system—published its much-anticipated report on litigation...more

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Senator Tillis Introduced a Bill Taxing Proceeds of Litigation Financing Agreements

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Senator Thom Tillis introduced a bill (called the “Tackling Predatory Litigation Funding Act”) that would impose additional significant taxes on litigation funding investments. Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OH) introduced a similar bill...more

Marshall Dennehey

Georgia Permits the Discovery of Litigation Funding – Will Other States Soon Follow?

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On April 21, 2025, Georgia became one of the first states to enact a statute to permit the discovery of litigation funding, paving the way, perhaps, for a number of other states to soon follow....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Litigation Funding: The Good, The Bad, The Future

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Third party litigation funding is the process where third party funders provide money to a plaintiff or to plaintiff’s counsel in exchange for a cut of the proceeds resulting from the underlying litigation or settlement....more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Ensuring Access to Justice: The Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill and the Path Forward Post-PACCAR

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Following the second reading of the Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill in the House of Lords on April 15th, there is a shared acknowledgment among the House of the significance of maintaining and protecting...more

Gray Reed

Could Litigation Funding Disclosure Be Coming to Texas?

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In recent months we have discussed litigation funding, specifically covering what litigation funding entails, whether such agreements were legal in different jurisdictions and the ethical issues surrounding litigation funding...more

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