The global litigation-finance industry is probably worth more than $1 billion today.
Impress, to be sure, may attend to individual bloggers in local disputes: but now hear the crude crunch of global litigation bent on obliteration, not arbitration.
Shelly Dalrymple left her job as a partner at a firm in Tulsa, Okla., in 2007 and is now based in India as the senior vice president of global litigation services at UnitedLex, a legal outsourcing company with offices in the United States, Britain, Israel and India.
"We recognize that this is a significant charge, but we believe the approach we are taking to resolve longstanding legal matters is in the company's best interests," P. D. Villarreal, GlaxoSmithKline's senior vice president for global litigation, said in the statement.
Over the years, these attorneys not only provided Samsung with in-depth legal advice regarding global litigation strategy, but also detailed technical analysis of Samsung mobile devices.
The big challenge is "how do you get a bunch of American lawyers to believe that we might be doing things smarter" by using a process developed in India, said Shelly Dalrymple, senior vice president for global litigation support at UnitedLex.
Building a global litigation business for a American firm is more complicated than expanding other practice areas because litigators must be licensed in the jurisdictions where they are based.
Since 2006, he has been at Latham & Watkins, one of the nation's largest law firms, where he is now the global head of litigation.
And the global head of litigation at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is David M. Zornow, who was the firm's first white-collar criminal defense lawyer when he joined in 1989.
Conectas seeks to strengthen respect for human rights and the rule of law in the global south through strategic litigation and south-south co-operation.
