Seattle Regional Chapter Event: Funding the Fight

Date: October 16, 2025
Time: 4 to 6 p.m. PT
Location: Perkins Coie
1301 Second Avenue, Ste 4200
Seattle

Funding the Fight:
Third-Party Funding & the Future of Dispute Resolution

CPR Institute is excited to announce our next in-person event organized by the Seattle Advisory Board! Please register now!

CPR Institute members and non-members are invited.

With third-party litigation funding an increasingly important and unavoidable part of the litigation and arbitration landscape, this panel will offer a variety of perspectives on this phenomenon and the challenges and opportunities it presents for early dispute prevention and resolution. This insightful discussion will tackle the following questions:

(1) The basics of third-party litigation funding: What is it? How does it work? What do we know of its growing importance?
(2) How does litigation funding impact early dispute prevention and resolution, and how its effects might be mitigated in those contexts;
(3) The role of TPLF in arbitration; and
(4) Recent developments relating to third party funding, including case law, civil rule changes/proposals, and legislative developments.

Speakers:
• Angie Jones (Partner & Deputy General Counsel, Perkins Coie)
• Nicholas Kim (Senior Corporate Counsel, Microsoft)
• Lina Bensman (Partner, Cleary Gottlieb)

Moderator:
• Mike Paisner (Partner, Perkins Coie), Co-Chair of CPR Institute’s Seattle Advisory Board.

The program will be introduced by Cindy Randall (Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft), who is also the Co-Chair of CPR Institute’s Seattle Advisory Board. A networking cocktail reception will follow the discussion. 

CLE Info: This program is pending approval for 1 professional practice/general/law & legal procedure CLE credit in WA for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys.

Email Lizzi Merrill at emerrill@cpradr.org for any questions or concerns.

Parking: The Russell Investments Center Parking Garage is located on Union Street between 1^st and 2^nd avenues.
Please bring your ticket to the event, and our reception staff will validate it as you leave.