How David Beats Goliath

Access to Capital for Contingent-Fee Law Firms

By: Michael J. Swanson

Narrated by: Larry Oliver

How David Beats Goliath: Access to Capital for Contingent-Fee Law Firms addresses a little-known but critical flaw in America’s system of justice.

Average citizens and workers who have been injured or wronged through negligence or malfeasance are guaranteed their day in court. In practice, however, this bedrock legal right is compromised. The problem is a paucity of fair and reasonable funding for expenses incurred in the bringing of personal injury and other lawsuits.

Designed for trial attorneys who represent the middle class or even indigent clients, author and finance expert Michael J. Swanson outlines this complex problem in a clear and lucid book that every dedicated trial lawyer should own.

“By temperament, training, and the long traditions of their profession, contingent-fee lawyers often fail to maximize the business needs of their practices,” says Swanson. “They especially fail to understand and control the cost of their capital structure.”

©2011 Michael J. Swanson (P)2020 Michael J. Swanson

Helps anyone involved evaluate the choices

This book gets pretty well to the point. It weighs pros and cons of the various means to fund cases and, for the plaintiff's law firm, pay the bills meanwhile.