Video game company Valve Corporation could face as many as 40,000 consumer arbitration claims, thanks to what it calls a “scheme” by a law firm and its outside funder.

Shuttered dental alignment brand SmileDirectClub Inc. is barred from pushing down the repayment priority of loans owed to the company’s founders in order to take on litigation funding, a Texas bankruptcy judge ruled.

Fortress Investment has committed billions of dollars to legal assets and intellectual property, but its intensity and meticulous streak may be the secret to the firm’s success. On this episode of our podcast, On The Merits, Bloomberg Law reporter Emily Siegel talks about what she learned in her investigation of this secretive company.

Even as some Big Law firms expand their contingency case portfolios, many of them have not gotten more comfortable with the risks involved.

Asset-management giant Fortress Investment Group has quietly become a leader in litigation finance through a combination of sheer size, meticulousness and a ruthless streak.

Google is endorsing a bill that would require people filing lawsuits to disclose who will be paying for – and profiting from – the litigation.