Ethics/Professional Responsibility
May 2, 2015
Laywers must navigate ethical complexities in litigation funding
According to speakers at a State Bar symposium on lawyer ethics last weekend, lawyers must wend their way through a complex ethical web when they or their clients bring in outside investors or lenders to pay for expensive litigation.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO - Early this year, a judge ruled an ex-husband stuck in litigation over
his years-old divorce could read emails his ex-wife exchanged with the lawyer heading
the company underwriting her lawsuit against him.
Granted, they weren't an ordinary couple. The husband was Steven A. Cohen, founder
of the h...
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