Lake Whillans Ranked Among a Handful of Top Tier U.S. Litigation Funders by The Legal 500.

Managing Director Marla Decker is quoted discussing litigation funding and its ability to help Davids in David v. Goliath battles.

For the fifth consecutive year since launch, Lake Whillans has been ranked as a top litigation finance team by Chambers and Partners. Lake Whillans received praise for its flexibility, openness to various structures, and its ability to understand issues.

Congratulations are also in order for our Managing Director, Boaz Weinstein who has also been individually ranked for the fifth year for his “widely recognized legal expertise and business sense,” and Managing Director, Marla Decker, who joined the list of ranked individuals for the first time this year in recognition of her “extensive legal acumen” and trusted judgment.

Members of Lake Whillans team have again been named Lawdragon’s 2022 Global 100 Leaders in Litigation Finance. "Litigation funding is growing by leaps and bounds, providing an ever-expanding universe of fascinating professionals with backgrounds in business and law."

Congrats to Boaz Weinstein , Lee Drucker, Marla Decker, and Chris Hagale! And kudos to Jim Kearny, who made it to the Lawdragon Hall of Fame!

Lake Whillans' Managing Director, Lee Drucker, adds commentary to a discussion on "Initial Litigation Offering.

Lake Whillans Managing Director, Lee Drucker, contributes to a discussion of market activity in the litigation finance industry.

For the fourth year in row, Lake Whillans was ranked among the top U.S. litigation funders and Boaz Weinstein was individually recognized as an industry leader.

Feature on Lake Whilllans in an article outlining the prominent companies in the litigation funding industry.

Lake Whillans Managing Director, Garrett Ordower, discusses the risk corridor litigation and the role that litigation funders played in helping insurers hedge their risk and manage their cash flows.

Lake Whillans' Managing Director, Lee Drucker, discusses the pandemic's impact on the litigation finance industry.

Garrett Ordower, Managing Director at Lake Whillans, discusses monetizing risk-corridor lawsuits.

Boaz Weinstein discussing the demand and utility for law firm portfolio financing in this analysis of the lawyer ethics around this type of financing.

In this interview with David Lat, Boaz Weinstein shares his thoughts on the state and future of the litigation funding market and reflects on his start on the industry and recent recognition by Chambers & Partners.

For the second year, Lake Whillans was ranked among the top U.S. funders by Chambers & Partners and Boaz Weinstein was again individually recognized as an industry leader.

Lake Whillans' Managing Director, Chris Hagale, featured in an article discussing the adoption of litigation finance as a practice within law firms.

Coverage of Marla Decker, Lee Drucker, James Kearney, Garrett Ordower and Boaz Weinstein named to Lawdragon's 100 Leading Legal Consultants and Strategists for 2019.

Coverage of Harvard Litigation Finance Symposium, where Lake Whillans' Managing Director, Lee Drucker, participated in a paneled discussion on litigation finance as an uncorrelated asset class.

Lake Whillans Managing Director, Boaz Weinstein, featured in Corporate Counsel article about litigation funding and in-house law departments.

Lake Whillans' Garrett Ordower participated in a panel discussing litigation finance of law firms in traditional and complex litigation at the Third-Party Litigation Funding Conference at the George Washington University Law School on November 2, 2018. The conference attendees included members of the Civil Rules Advisory Committee of the United States Courts and staff of the Federal Judicial Center. Ordower and fellow panel members, Brian Fitzpatrick, of Vanderbilt University Law School, Deborah Hensler, of Stanford Law School, Travis Lenkner, of Keller Lenkner, Chris Seeger, of Seeger Weiss, and Alan Zimmerman, of the Law Finance Group, addressed a wide range of topics of interest to the federal judiciary in connection with the growth of litigation finance.

Q & A with Lake Whillans Managing Director Lee Drucker.

Coverage of the Inaugural LF Dealmakers Forum where Boaz Weinstein, Managing Director of Lake Whillans, was a featured panelist.

Lake Whillans' Managing Director, Lee Drucker, quoted in discussion of litigation finance's appeal to institutional investors.

A perspective on litigation funding's market dynamics; contains quotes from Lake Whillans' Managing Director, Lee Drucker.

Lake Whillans has been recognized as one of the top four litigation funders in the U.S. by Chambers and Partners in its first-ever ranking of litigation funding firms. Chambers also recognized Lake Whillans’ principal, Boaz Weinstein, individually as one of the top professionals in the litigation finance industry.

Chris Hagale discusses his experience as a Partner at Barlit Beck, and his transition to joining the Lake Whillans team

Lake Whillans' Managing Director, Garrett Ordower, named to The American Lawyer's Young Lawyer Editorial Board

The American Lawyer's coverage of Lake Whillans recent $125,000,000 capital raise

Law 360's coverage of Lake Whillans recent $125,000,000 capital raise

James Kearney, Boaz Weinstein, and Lee Drucker of Lake Whillans named to Lawdragon's 100 Leading Legal Consultants and Strategists for 2017

Boaz Weinstein, Managing Director of Lake Whillans, discussing developments to the rules governing the disclosure of litigation finance transactions.

Lee Drucker, Managing Director of Lake Whillans, discussing Lake Whillans' track record and the impetus for new investors to enter the litigation finance space.

Litigators from prominent law firms are transitioning to careers in litigation finance; includes discussion of Garrett Ordower who left Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to join Lake Whillans.

Garrett Ordower discusses his experience as a litigator at Wachtell, and his transition to joining the Lake Whillans team

A round table discussion of litigation finance with a few of the industry's prominent investors.

Interview with Lee Drucker, co-founder of Lake Whillans, discussing the company's business model and the state of litigation finance.

A spotlight on industry executives helping to shape litigation finance.

Analysis of Lake Whillans' survey on the state of litigation finance

James Kearney of Lake Whillans named to Lawdragon's 100 Leading Legal Consultants and Strategists for 2016

A piece on the notable litigation finance companies that have moved into Silicon Valley and San Francisco.

Op-ed piece by Lee Drucker addressing the concerns raised by Peter Thiel's funding of Terry Bolea's lawsuit against Gawker Media.

Lee Drucker offers his thoughts on issues of disclosure and transparency in litigation finance.

Boaz Weinstein offers his thoughts on issues of disclosure and transparency in litigation finance.

A profile of the prominent litigation financiers.

Lake Whillans is, according to American Lawyer, one of the six companies pioneering litigation funding in the U.S.

"One of the big misconceptions out there is they want to manage your litigation for you," says Swanson, Martin & Bell partner William Patterson. As an in-house counsel at Business Logic Holding Corp., a financial software company, Patterson chose Lake Whillans to help fund a trade secrets case against Morningstar Inc. That case, in which Lake Whillans invested $3 million to $5 million, ultimately resulted in a $61 million verdict, about 95 percent of what Business Logic had sought. Business Logic also selected a Houston trial boutique at Lake Whillans' urging. "They want to find good cases with good lawyers working on them and then get out of the way," Patterson says.

Litigation claims as assets bear substantial risk. Comparing a legal claim to, say, a standard bond, it’s not clear that the legal claim will ever mature. Litigation funding can help on this front. As Drucker put it, “Litigation finance enables the redistribution of risk to the party that is most able to manage it.”

Lake Whillans is a top-tier litigation funder according to the first-ever effort to rank litigation finance providers. The ranking targeted companies and law firms that have worked with financiers, and it focused on client satisfaction.

CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE MKT: CVM) today announced that it has signed a funding agreement with a company established by Lake Whillans, a firm specialized in the funding of litigation. Pursuant to the agreement, Lake Whillans Vehicle I, LLC will provide the Company with up to $5,000,000 in funding for litigation expenses to support its $50,000,000 arbitration claims against its former clinical research organization.

Buoyed by a combination of shrinking corporate legal budgets and under-resourced startups/emerging companies seeking to protect their interests, litigation-finance options are proliferating. The explosion of interest in the brave new world of litigation finance was manifest at the recent annual Association of Business Trial Lawyers Seminar (Countdown: The Digital World Confronts an Analog Profession), which took place last week in Ojai, California.

John Chant, a biotech entrepreneur in the San Francisco area, recounts his experience working with Lake Whillans: “They were hands-off in the sense that we made the decisions; they didn’t dictate anything we did,” he said. “On the other hand, they have some very accomplished people and they were willing to spend a lot of time with us giving us input that was valuable.”

Last July, after a five-year legal battle, a small Chicago software company, Business Logic, won a $61 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against investment research house Morningstar Inc. Bankrolling Business Logic's case was a New York City outfit, Lake Whillans Capital Partners, which helps small and medium-size businesses sue other businesses they believe have wronged them.