Aspiring lawyers will be able to take the LSAT at home or at a testing center starting in August. The Law School Admission Council, which designs and administers the LSAT, said Monday it will offer most test takers a choice after moving the exam exclusively online in May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on in-person gatherings. Prior to that, the LSAT was only offered in-person. Read more about the change.
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Shares of the litigation funder Burford Capital shot straight to the moon on Friday after a Manhattan federal judge granted summary judgment against the Republic of Argentina in a complex, Burford-funded case stemming from the government’s takeover of energy company YPF SA. Damages are yet to be determined but Burford’s payoff could be billions of dollars. Both sides agree that there would be no case against Argentina if Burford hadn’t supplied the plaintiffs — former YPF shareholders who lost big — with the money to hire fancy law firms and experts. But they disagree sharply on the implications of that fact. Alison Frankel explains why this is the rare case in which Burford told the world about its stake — and why the funder believes the outcome proves that litigation finance is a boon for the civil justice system.
Check out other recent pieces from all our columnists: Alison Frankel, Jenna Greene and Hassan Kanu
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