Unlikely Colorado Court Vexes $8 Million Litigation Finance Win

Welcome back to the Big Law Business column. It’s good to be back after three months of paternity leave. Perhaps next week we’ll catch up on some things we missed in Big Law. This week, we look at a litigation funding dispute in which a funder’s payment is held up in an unlikely venue because of concerns over usury.

Plenty of lawyers who get in bed with litigation funders later try to argue that the deals are illegal because they end up being too expensive.

The fancy word is “usurious.” That’s the centuries-old term used to describe what others would ...