Research
February 20, 2024
How will businesses address cost management and value generation within the legal department in the years ahead? Read insights from 400 GCs, heads of litigation, senior in-house lawyers, CFOs and other finance leaders.
Blog
February 28, 2024
Meet Director and patent expert Christopher Freeman as he talks patent mega-verdicts, divestitures and top five things to do in Chiacgo.
Blog
March 27, 2024
By leveraging legal finance, CPG companies mitigate risks associated with litigation and access a significant source of capital.
Publication
April 15, 2024
The latest report on Burford's business and trends in 2024 draws on 15 years of insights from financing leading businesses and law firms, illustrates how Fortune 500s are unlocking value and reducing risk in their legal departments and shows how law firms can build and sustain high value practice areas to fuel growth. Read the 2024 Legal Finance Outlook to learn more.
Video
April 17, 2024
Burford’s Chief Marketing Officer Liz Bigham spoke with Chief Executive Officer Christopher Bogart about Burford's experience in the legal finance sector over the last 15 years and the future of the industry. Watch to learn more.
Blog
April 18, 2024
With the advent of legal finance, businesses can now finance their legal departments—and that’s a good thing, as a former CFO of a top 25 US financial holding company explained at the 2024 ILFA Conference.
Blog
May 21, 2024
The energy sector is particularly exposed to shifts in global politics and economics, high infrastructure costs and fluctuations in supply and demand. The sector faces complex issues such as dry wells, time-consuming extraction and distribution activities and complicated contractual arrangements involving multiple partners, including governments. As a result, the energy industry is a natural hotbed for disputes.
Blog
June 4, 2024
Burford’s latest research reveals how finance and legal leaders at healthcare companies are managing their legal assets.
Blog
July 2, 2024
Recent research featuring senior legal leaders in the mining indstry addresses the key dispute trends in the sector. Learn more about the finding below.
Blog
July 18, 2024
The Netherlands has over recent years become one of the most active European markets for legal finance providers. Financiers have flocked towards Dutch collective actions—claims for damages under the Resolution of Mass Damages in Collective Action (WAMCA)—but the Dutch market is an attractive one to legal finance providers more generally, as explored below.
Blog
July 30, 2024
Meet Burford's CFO Jordan Licht as he talks about what CFOs need to know about legal finance and the top five things he brought with him from Dallas.