Sentence examples for financing lawsuits from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Lawyers for families of 9/11 victims have taken the unusual legal step of asking a federal appeals court in Manhattan to replace a judge overseeing a group of terrorism-financing lawsuits, saying he is moving too slowly in resolving key motions.

The school finance lawsuits have a million angles, but this tax raises that key constitutional issue.

He financed lawsuits against the Clintons and their associates that cost the defendants millions of dollars in legal fees.