
Lawyers
Would you like more information about litigation funding?
Please contact us by phone, e-mail or fax. We would be happy to send you a detailed brochure or a sample financing agreement.
Do you have a case that you would like us to examine?
We would be happy to send you a form for our internal review. All you need to do is to fill out this form which we will use to carry out our initial review. As a rule, we can give you the results of our review within two to four weeks.
If the result of our initial review is positive, we will ask you to provide us with a detailed statement of position, a draft claim (if already existing) and all other supporting documentation. Then, together with you, we shall decide on the next steps going forward.
Are there ethical misgivings about litigation funding?
No. Cooperation with a litigation funding institution is unobjectionable from an ethical point of view. There are no particular problems, either with the lawyer’s independence, or with regard to maintaining lawyer-client privilege, or potential conflicts of interest. According to the federal court in a ruling from 2004 (BGE 131 I 223 and following) the situation of the lawyers in litigation funding is, from a professional ethics standpoint, in many ways comparable to that of liability insurance or legal expenses insurance. The aforementioned decision is available on our website. Among other things, the Federal Court made it expressly clear that: “For the client, it can even be an advantage if, in addition to the lawyers (interested in an honorarium that is not dependent on success), the litigation funding institution (interested in success) makes an estimation of the case risks. If litigation funding is declined, the client will then have, from an additional source, an estimation of the chances of success for his request for legal remedy. This can help him to decide whether to risk a law suit.”