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Litigation Funding Creates National Security Threat

Updated: Jan 25, 2023


Third party litigation funding has become a lucrative investment practice in theUnited States with investors funding lawsuits, gambling on a verdict they hope will pay off in big bucks.

But litigation funding creates a major risk to national security by opening a path for foreign adversaries to infiltrate the American litigation system and undermine national economic and security interests.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform’s ILR Briefly: A New Threat: The National Security Risk of Third Party Litigation Funding warns the China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s sovereign wealth fund, could finance a suit against an American company in a sensitive industry such as military technology and “obtain highly confidential documents containing proprietary information regarding sensitive technologies from the American defendant corporation.”


CBS’ weekly news program “60 Minutes” aired a report on the lack of oversight concerning litigation funding. Click here to watch that video.


You can read the Institute for Legal Reform’s full report by clicking the button below:



 

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