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The court agreed to reconsider that ruling but also ordered mediation between the state and the coalition of school districts that filed the school financing lawsuit in 1991.

Michael A. Rebell, executive director of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which recently won a school financing lawsuit against the state, said Ms. Segarra had been helpful in advising the group about the politics of money and education.

"It's true that the number who actually leave is not huge," said Michael Rebell, a lawyer for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a coalition of advocacy groups that filed the school financing lawsuit.

In January, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Gov. Eliot Spitzer said a dramatic downturn in the economy was forcing them to reduce the amount of money they had planned to spend on schools after a longstanding education financing lawsuit was settled last year.

Parabellum Capital, a firm that seeks to profit from financing lawsuits, is welcoming home one of the men who essentially founded the business.

REUTERS   Firm Focused on Investing in Lawsuits Brings in Old Leader  |  Parabellum, which focuses on the exotic business of financing lawsuits, has hired Howard Shams from Credit Suisse as a managing principal.

Spurred in part by school financing lawsuits, more than half the 15 states included in the study already provide more state and local financing to heavily poor or minority districts than to affluent or low-minority ones, according to figures compiled by Education Trust, an advocacy group in Washington.

Pearl, formed from a public company that trades on the slippery Toronto Venture Exchange, set up a subsidiary in New Jersey to avoid laws in other states that prevent nonlitigants from financing lawsuits and to give it a U.S. home base.

But any decision will hinge on the resolution of a major school finance lawsuit against the state.

Even some experts who supported the education finance lawsuit say they believe that some of the burden must now fall on New York City as well as Albany.

Now they're fenced in by self-imposed spending caps, the need to fill some of the gaps in the current budget, and a school finance lawsuit that could require a multibillion-dollar remedy this year.