Wake Up Call: Burford Capital Starts Its Own Law Firm

• Litigation funder Burford Capital has launched its own law firm Burford Law , hiring London-based litigator Tom Evans away from Akin Gump. (The Lawyer)

• Litigation finance could become a factor in labor and employment cases, Jonathan Molot, chief investment officer of Burford Capital, said. (Bloomberg BNA)

• Yahoo is having an awful fall. A new report says the company started secretly scanning inbound email messages of its hundreds of millions of users after getting a request from U.S. authorities, a move that lead to the departure of at least two company officials. (Washington Post)

• A Nevada court ...