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

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Date: October 16, 2025
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm PT
Location: Perkins Coie
301 Second Avenue, Suite 3548
Seattle, WA 98101-3804

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

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

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 Regional 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 Regional Advisory Board.

CPR Institute is still working to confirm if this event will offer CLE Credit. Please check back here shortly for more details.

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