The transformations of the legal profession and their relationship to how the economy is itself transformed was already addressed by this blog (see here – in Portuguese, but with links to materials in English). Among the new practices incorporated into professional dealings of lawyers (perhaps more likely to happen in global law firms) is the treatment of law suits as commodities. Recent information on this relatively new trend, called “litigation finance”, is provided by the NYT (see here). As reported by the paper, in one instance, “an infusion of $ 6 million” helped a law firm to collect a $110 million award – quite a handsome profit must have been made by investors.
But would litigation finance imply turning “rights” themselves into commodities? Could one speak of a global Leia o resto deste post »
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