Lauren Berstein.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Curiam Capital is proud to honor the progress made by women in the legal profession. We highlight two of our colleagues who have been instrumental to the success of Curiam Capital and to the field of litigation finance. “I was drawn in to litigation finance by the challenge of...

As it appeared on JDSupra MS. BERNSTEIN SHARES WITH US HER IN-DEPTH EXPERIENCE WITH LITIGATION FINANCE, AND HOW COVID-19 HAS AFFECTED HER JOB. One of the more noteworthy developments over the past few years in the litigation arena has been the rise of litigation funding. A newer name in the industry is Curiam Capital LLC,...

On June 3, 2020, the Minnesota Supreme Court abolished, under Minnesota law, the common law doctrine that champertous agreements are unenforceable. This is an important decision for the litigation funding industry, and the Court’s opinion highlighted certain benefits of litigation funding.   Champerty is defined as “an agreement to divide litigation proceeds between the owner...

The New York City Bar Association, one of the nation’s most influential legal associations with 24,000 members, created a working group in January 2019 to study litigation funding. The forming of this working group was important as the New York City Bar Association had previously issued a controversial non-binding opinion stating that litigation finance could...

New York, NY, March 25, 2019 — Curiam Capital, a private investment firm that provides financing for high-value litigation, announced that Lauren Bernstein has joined the firm as a Director with a focus on transactional work for the firm’s single-case and portfolio financings. With more than a decade of experience as a finance lawyer, Bernstein...