Beyond Hourly

In the latest episode of our Beyond Hourly podcast, Omni Bridgeway Investment Manager Stephanie Southwick talks with Daily Journal's “Most Interesting Man on the Ninth Circuit,” Judge Carlos Bea, about his thoughts on litigation funding, practicing law before the Internet, and the path he took to become a U.S. Circuit Judge, including a stint on the Cuban Olympic basketball team.  

Brazil has become a truly sophisticated arbitration market and the number of industries and types of companies now embracing arbitration are growing fast. Read more to understand the rise of arbitrations in Brazil, trends affecting dispute resolution in the country, and the current and future role of dispute funding in the Brazilian arbitration market.

In our latest episode of Beyond Hourly, “A Peek Behind the Appellate Curtain,” Omni Bridgeway's Amy Geise engages in a candid discussion with former Justice Scott Field and veteran clerk Marshall Bowen. Tip #1 for your oral argument? “No one cares about your outline.”

Comment la pandémie affecte-t-elle la quantification de réclamations judiciarisées? Doit-on réviser les rapports d'experts préparés avant la crise pour tenir compte de ses impacts? PJ Bouchard, gestionnaire d'investissements et conseiller juridique chez Omni Bridgway, en discute avec JP Langevin, expert en quantification de dommages chez MNP.

Plaintiffs that suddenly find themselves with an insolvent defendant face new obstacles and costs in continuing to litigate their claim. Omni Bridgeway's Amy Geise and Deidre Carey Brown of Forshey Prostok discuss options available to plaintiffs in this situation and explain how litigation finance can help.

With a decade under our belt of operating in North America, we discuss our expansion in the region, how we’ve brought dispute funding services to claimants, firms, and companies, and predict what’s in store for the future of the litigation finance industry.

Omni Bridgeway Investment Manager and Legal Counsel, Geoff Moysa, talks with mining law experts Jonathan Drimmer of Paul Hastings and Junior Sirivar of McCarthy Tetrault about commercial disputes in the mining sector, including royalty arbitrations and the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on extractive industries.

Omni Bridgeway Investment Manager and Legal Counsel, Geoff Moysa, talks with mining law experts Jonathan Drimmer of Paul Hastings and Junior Sirivar of McCarthy Tetrault about trends in international mining disputes, including investment treaty arbitrations, enforcement proceedings and Covid-related developments.

In part two of this podcast, Clive Bowman, Omni Bridgeway’s Global Chief Investment Officer, chats with Robert Bordone, a senior fellow at Harvard Law School, about negotiation strategies for commercial dispute resolution. Robert provides some theory behind negotiation methods and principles for negotiating a good outcome. Robert and Clive also discuss those aspects that are most relevant to the dispute finance industry and our clients, namely how to negotiate the successful resolution of commercial dispute

In this podcast, Clive Bowman, Omni Bridgeway's Global Chief Investment Officer, chats with Robert Bordone, a senior fellow at Harvard Law School, about negotiation strategies for commercial dispute resolution Robert provides some theory behind negotiation methods and principles for negotiating a good outcome. Robert and Clive also discuss those aspects that are most relevant to the dispute finance industry and our clients, namely how to negotiate the successful resolution of commercial dispute

In part 2 of this podcast series, “Building a New Law Firm in Times of Uncertainty,” Omni Bridgeway’s Jim Batson and Ariana Tadler of Tadler Law, discuss the unique challenges facing firms during this pandemic as well as why diversity and inclusion are important factors for success.

Starting a law firm can be risky business, and more so during these uncertain times. In part 1 of our latest Beyond Hourly episode, Jim Batson speaks with Ariana Tadler of Tadler Law about her decision to start her own firm and factors to consider to help make a firm successful.

Stephanie Southwick sits down with trade secrets litigation expert James Pooley to discuss trends in IP litigation, including the use, and benefits, of dispute finance by companies in this space.

Omni Bridgeway’s Amy Geise sits down with Ken Hill of Quilling, Selander, Lownds, Winslett & Moser, PC (QSLWM) to discuss how litigation finance can be used by bankruptcy trustees to increase creditor distributions.

Omni Bridgeway’s Stephanie Southwick sits down with Aravinda Seshadri, founding partner of Venturous Counsel, to discuss why ensuring a diverse workforce is good for business in Silicon Valley and beyond.

In this podcast, Gian Marco shares the background to his new book and discusses some of his analysis and views of third party funding which are dealt with in detail in the book.

Omni Bridgeway Investment Manager and former General Counsel of RSL NSW, Leanne Meyer, chats with Christian Paech, former General Counsel and Company Secretary of Australian energy company, Santos Limited. They discuss some of the challenges for an in-house legal team when a company has a claim and how dispute finance can assist.

Omni Bridgeway’s Tom Glasgow and Insolvency Practitioner Luke Furler chat about the types of insolvency claims that are suitable for third-party funding, benefits of using a commercial third-party funder and practical aspects of the insolvency funding process. Tom is Omni Bridgeway’s Chief Investment Officer - Asia and Luke heads the Singapore office of leading independent restructuring, insolvency and advisory firm AJCapital Advisory.

Legal Counsel Annie Lespérance interviews Associate Investment Manager Nickolas Tzoulas to get the inside scoop on what this Omni Bridgeway-funded case means for litigants, lawyers and other professionals. This episode provides all the background and analysis you need in order to learn how the “Bluberi” decision can help minimize risks and maximize value for any piece of litigation.

Omni Bridgeway’s Group Chief Financial Officer Stuart Mitchell chats about what attracted him to the dispute finance industry and how dispute finance assists today’s CFOs address their priorities and challenges by converting litigation from an expense into an asset.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.