AB 931 Explained: Your New Rights as a California Legal Funding Consumer
If you accepted a funding advance while your injury case worked through the courts, you probably signed a stack of paperwork with little time to read it. A new state law changes that experience. Here is AB 931 explained for the person who signs the contract, not the company that writes it. The measure turns […]
Cash Flow Strategy for Contingency Firms in a Post-AB 931 Market
Every contingency practice runs on a simple mismatch: the bills arrive on a schedule, and the money does not. Managing contingency firm cash flow means living inside that gap for months at a time, and the passage of AB 931 has changed how firms think about it. The honest reading is that AB 931 reshaped […]
Nuclear Verdicts Are Rising: Here’s How Case Funding Changes Your Negotiating Position
Nuclear verdicts are one of the most talked-about topics in personal injury litigation right now, and much of the talk gets ahead of the facts. If you run a personal injury practice in California, the useful question is not whether these awards make news. It is what they mean for how you value a case, […]
How Litigation Funding Lines of Credit Help Firms Absorb Rising Defense Costs
Every managing partner at a contingency firm knows the uncomfortable arithmetic: the money leaves before it ever comes back. A litigation funding line of credit gives firms a way to cover mounting case costs while recoveries sit somewhere down the docket, and it does that without forcing partners to raid operating cash or slow down […]
Non-Recourse vs. Recourse Funding: Why the Distinction Matters More After AB 931
Two funding contracts can look almost identical on the page and still leave a client in completely different positions if the case goes sideways. The single line that separates them is whether the arrangement is non-recourse funding or a recourse structure, and California attorneys now have a stronger statutory reason to read that line closely. […]
Federal Disclosure Rules Are Coming: How Attorneys Should Prepare for TPLF Transparency Requirements
Every few months a headline warns that TPLF disclosure has arrived and that every funded case will soon sit on the public record. The reality is quieter and more useful to know. As of today, no single federal rule requires third party litigation funding disclosure in ordinary civil matters. Proposals exist, they are serious, and […]
Referral Fees Are Now Banned Under AB 931: Is Your Funding Partner Compliant?
A single line item in a vendor agreement can now expose your firm to statutory damages. That is the practical weight of the referral fees ban written into AB 931, and it changes how every personal injury firm in the state evaluates its funding relationships. The law does not care what you call the payment. […]
What AB 931 Means for California Law Firms Using Legal Funding Partners
For years, most personal injury firms treated funding paperwork as someone else’s compliance problem. That assumption no longer holds. AB 931 rewrites who carries the risk when a client uses a funding company, and a large share of that risk now sits with the retained attorney and the firm. Signed on October 10, 2025, this […]
Letter of Protection vs Medical Lien: What California Providers Should Know
Ask two billing managers what it means to treat a patient “on a lien,” and you may hear the same phrase describing two very different documents. In California accident cases, providers often use letter of protection and medical lien to mean the same thing, yet the two rest on different legal ground and offer different […]
How Disbursement Timing Impacts PI Firm Working Capital
Most personal injury firms can tell you roughly how long their cases take to settle. Far fewer can tell you where, inside that timeline, their money actually sits. That blind spot is where law firm working capital quietly erodes. A settlement figure on a spreadsheet is not cash in the operating account, and the distance […]