Class actions are often portrayed as a tool for justice, enabling individuals to band together and hold powerful entities accountable. However, the reality of these… Read More
August 25, 2025
Australian plaintiffs’ firms have brought 69 class action lawsuits this fiscal year, topping previous records in Australian courts. This worrying milestone… Read More
July 10, 2025
West Virginia has emerged as a standout example in the realm of tort reform, demonstrating how strategic legal reforms can significantly reduce tort… Read More
December 19, 2024
Mountain State’s Per Household Cost Lowest in the U.S. WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new economic study released today by the U.S. Read More
November 20, 2024
The class action lawsuit system in the U.S. was created more than half a century ago to provide compensation for injured individuals and to deter… Read More
August 11, 2022
Before Congress intervened in 1995, exploitative securities fraud class actions were rampant. Plaintiffs’ lawyers cultivated stables of so-called frequent filer plaintiffs, sometimes with cash inducements,… Read More
April 21, 2022
What’s more likely to happen if a hedge fund buys part of a law firm? Will it deploy its capital altruistically, launching a revolution in… Read More
April 11, 2022
Ring of Conspirators Takes Advantage of Vulnerable People to Make Millions From Faked Slip-And-Falls
Federal prosecutors in New York are cracking down on an alleged ring of conspirators who actively recruited individuals to stage slip-and-fall accidents. In the… Read More
November 22, 2021
In recent months, lawmakers, media, and courts in jurisdictions worldwide have called for oversight of third party litigation funding (or TPLF). TPLF is a global… Read More
October 8, 2021
Have you ever scrolled through social media or turned on the TV and wondered who is funding all of those lawsuits over prescription drugs and household products? Many times,… Read More
March 19, 2021
75 years ago 1950s - Pain and suffering damages risePain and suffering awards take off as a result of efforts by… Read More
September 23, 2020
2019 Lawsuit Abuse Quiz Show | Take One: Can You Guess the Fake Frivolous Lawsuit? 2019 Lawsuit Abuse Quiz Show | Take Two:… Read More
September 17, 2019
Press Event: ILR’s Chief Operating Officer Harold Kim and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis On September 17, 2019, the Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) released… Read More
September 17, 2019
Last week, the Tennessee House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HB 352 in a bipartisan vote and yesterday the Senate concurred, on a first of its kind bill that would ban deceptive drug and medical device ads that plaintiffs' lawyers use to recruit clients. Gov. Bill Lee now has the chance to sign it into law. Read More
March 26, 2019
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) today released a pair of studies examining the surge in lawsuits by cities and counties enlisted by trial lawyers to sue over alleged misconduct by businesses. Read More
March 7, 2019
Billions of dollars are being invested in lawsuits by sophisticated hedge funds that, according to some of these firms, yield huge money for them. Yet neither the defendant, nor in many cases the actual plaintiffs, have any idea that this is happening. Read More
February 13, 2019
One of the most influential bar associations in the country has voiced a full-throated condemnation of a core element of the litigation funding business model: promising a percentage of anticipated fees in exchange for cash. Read More
August 16, 2018
On May 3, 2005, the Chung family opened up their dry cleaning store in Washington, D.C. for what should have been a normal day of business. Thirteen years later, the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility recommended one of the Chung's customers from that day be suspended from his profession. Read More
July 23, 2018
Look no further than the National Football League (NFL) concussion settlement as an example, where lawyers, plaintiffs, and the court are engaged in a legal battle that has nothing to do with the settlement's purpose. Read More
July 19, 2018
Today, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), along with Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), introduced the Litigation Funding Transparency Act (LFTA), a landmark bill to help bring the multi-billion dollar litigation financing industry out of the shadows. Read More
May 10, 2018