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Litigation

Sep. 17, 2013

Litigation finance comes to California

Bentham IMF, a subsidiary of the one of the world's most venerable litigation finance firms, has opened a Los Angeles office.


By Henry Meier


Daily Journal Staff Writer


With many forecasting doom and gloom in the legal industry, an idle observer might never guess that one of the hottest investment markets in both the U.S. and abroad is litigation itself.


The growth of litigation finance firms - outfits that lend money to clients entangled in expensive legal cases - in the U.S. has been centered in Chicago, New York and elsewhere in the eastern part of the country.

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