The "Data Issue" of the Burford Quarterly
features an update on legal finance accounting, artificial
intelligence (AI) and the law, data analytics in disputes and
enforcement and key takeaways from recent surveys of GCs
NEW
YORK, Oct. 11, 2023
/PRNewswire/ -- Burford Capital, the leading global finance and
asset management firm focused on law, today releases its latest
Burford Quarterly, a journal of legal finance that explores
the top trends impacting the business of law.
The latest issue of the Burford Quarterly 4 2023
includes:
- Data analytics and litigation: How Artificial Intelligence
(AI) will (and won't) change the economics of law
Key
takeaways from a recent discussion with leading players in
integrated data analytics and AI, moderated by Co-COO David Perla.
- Macroeconomic trends affect how GCs think about dispute
costs and risk
Burford Co-COO Aviva Will analyzes key considerations top
in-house lawyers face around the world, leveraging new insights
from a survey of 66 GCs, heads of litigation and other senior
lawyers.
- Best practices for building risk-based practices
Senior lawyers from Gibson Dunn, Morgan
Lewis, Mayer Brown and Proskauer Rose discuss best practices
for law firms expanding their risk-based practices with Burford
Director Evan Meyerson.
- New data shows judgment and award enforcement remains a
perennial problem
Vanishingly few senior in-house lawyers (2%) recover the full
value of their judgments and awards. Burford Vice President Victoria Fox explains how this problem is only
exacerbated by difficult economic conditions.
- Case study: $325 million
corporate deal
A recent portfolio financing arrangement
with a Fortune 500 company demonstrates how businesses benefit from
building—and financing—affirmative litigation recovery
programs.
- Arbitration data analytics
Third-party funding of
investor-state and international commercial arbitration is on the
rise. Burford Director Jeffery
Commission examines key arbitration dispute data.
- As US bankruptcy filings increase, legal finance is set to
play an important role
Burford Managing Director
Emily Slater explores recent US
bankruptcy activity and explains how the legal finance industry is
increasingly playing a role.
- Setting a new standard for legal finance reporting and
transparency
Burford's CFO Jordan Licht describes Burford's new
industry-standard approach for valuing legal finance asset values,
which gives clients and investors greater transparency into the
performance of legal finance partners.
About Burford Capital
Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset
management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation
finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of
legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly
traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London
Stock Exchange (LSE: BUR), and it works with companies and law
firms around the world from its offices in New York, London, Chicago, Washington,
DC, Singapore,
Dubai, Sydney and Hong
Kong.
For more information, please visit www.burfordcapital.com.
This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or
the solicitation of an offer to buy any ordinary shares or other
securities of Burford.
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