The task of any good corporate general counsel is to protect the firm from loss, and recover any reasonable damages in a claim. Costs associated with running a business are leveraged against profits associated with the firm’s day-to-day operations. Most executives are risk averse in entertaining the notion of supporting a general counsel, whose baseline costs are spiraling out of control. 

Themis Legal Capital suggests an innovative approach to financing the modern general counsel’s office through claim-based enterprise. Given the episodic nature of meaningful litigation, budgets are often hard to estimate in advance. Once a claim comes to fruition, it can often be challenging to manage financial headaches along the way. Meanwhile, recoveries of meaningful ligiations can be 10x the investment. The debate many general counsels have is how to secure a recovery while balancing a multi-year litigation budget to yield a prospective recovery. 

Claim-based funding can dramatically improve the calculus for many corporate general counsel offices. Themis suggests the concept of building a portfolio of such claim-based litigation instances. As the successful rulings start rolling in, the firm may see the general counsel’s budget fully funded through payouts and settlements. This is a dream scenario which litigation funding can potentially offer.