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Our survey found that solicitors apply higher % scores than barristers to the same prospects advice phrases, suggesting that barristers take a more pessimistic view of case prospects than [...]

Layken joined Balance Legal Capital in 2021 as Team Assistant and all-round “fixer” having previously worked for a global professional services firm. Layken takes care of [...]

Our survey results show that without % numbers in prospects advice, the stock phrases lawyers use in legal advice are bound to confuse.

Third-party funding remains in the spotlight in international arbitration and will come under renewed scrutiny following publication of the draft report of the task force established in 2013 [...]

The recent case of Essar v Norscot has clarified that an arbitrator’s general power to award costs includes the power to award the costs of third party funding. In so doing, has arbitration [...]

In this part 3 of our series on "Litigation Superforecasting", we discuss the habits of thought honed by Tetlock's superforecasters, and apply them to litigation and arbitration.

This is the second part of a three-part series from Balance Legal Capital on “Litigation Superforecasting”, inspired by a recent book called “Superforecasting – The Art & Science of Prediction” [...]

This is the first of a three-part series in which Robert Rothkopf extracts important lessons for litigators and consumers of legal advice from the recent book “Superforecasting – The Art & [...]

In this blog, Robert Rothkopf, Managing Partner of Balance Legal Capital LLP, argues that the call for arbitration counsel to do more to encourage settlement should be complemented by tribunals [...]

This blog by Robert Rothkopf, Managing Partner of Balance Legal Capital LLP, argues that recent initiatives of the LCIA and the ICC after the QMWC 2015 survey should be welcomed as they not only [...]