Not exact matches
«4
barriers to turning in - house
legal departments into profit centers via
litigation funding» — Inside Counsel Magazine, July 2012
The Government announced on 30 November that it will launch its own consultation in Spring 2016 into removing
barriers to entry for alternative business models and making
legal service regulators independent from their representative bodies to encourage competition, better enabling, for example business such as supermarkets and estate agents to offer
legal services such as conveyancing, probate and
litigation.
According to the UK - based CCP Research Foundation, the
legal cost of
litigation since 2010 at the 16 biggest global banks has broken the US$ 300 billion
barrier.
Highlights of its far - reaching activities include: representing consumer debtors filing bankruptcy; helping veterans in overcoming
legal barriers to employment; providing
litigation and advice for tenants in
legal disputes; and assisting low - income Holocaust survivors claiming reparations from Germany.
The first and more formidable of these
barriers is falling as we speak: client - directed assembly of
legal documents,
legal professionals operating in low - cost jurisdictions, online dispute resolution systems that render
litigation superfluous, free searchable
legal knowledge databases: all these and more innovations exist today and will rapidly multiply.