Cornell Law Review

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An Empirical Investigation of Third Party Consumer Litigant Funding

Ronen Avraham & Anthony Sebok

This is the first large-scale empirical study of consumer third-party litigation funding in the United States. Despite being part of the American legal system for more than two decades there has been almost no real data-driven empirical study to date. We analyzed funding requests from American consumers in over 100,000 cases over a twelve year period. This proprietary data set was provided to us by one of the largest consumer litigation…

Jul 2019