Financing requests for contingency-fee law firms, prepared from your docket.
Working capital, case-cost funding, settlement bridges and portfolio lines, evaluated on what your cases are likely to do and when. Criterica Capital prepares the request for independent capital providers, who set the terms.
Three problems, three facilities.
Cash runs out before the case does
Case costs, experts and payroll arrive while fees wait. Case-cost funding and working capital carry the firm to resolution.
Growth needs capital the bank will not price
Banks cannot read a docket. Portfolio lending and growth capital can be evaluated on the book itself.
A settlement is coming and the firm needs it now
A settlement bridge is an advance against a resolution that is signed but not yet paid.
What each facility is, and who sets the terms.
Criterica Capital publishes no rates or sizes. The independent capital provider sets the terms, and they are written in its term sheet before you sign. They depend on the docket: stage, venues, collection history, facility size and term.
From docket to request.
- STEP 1Send the docketA case list with stage, venue and expected resolution.
- STEP 2We read it from the recordOutcome, duration and fee timing read from the court record, not from a personal financial statement.
- STEP 3Request preparedCriterica Capital prepares the request from the docket read and presents it to independent capital providers.
- STEP 4Provider decisionIndependent capital providers decide whether to fund and set their own terms, in a term sheet. Timing depends on the case, the documents and the provider.
Firm portfolio health scan
Before any facility, a written read of your docket: which matters carry the value, which carry the time, where fees are likely to land and when. Delivered as Criterica Portfolio. Request it on its own, with no obligation to borrow.
Request a docket readEvery financing request Criterica Capital prepares is evaluated against outcomes, not collateral. Our models are trained on real court records across US federal courts, state courts, and international jurisdictions.
We assess jurisdiction-level recovery rates, case-type outcome distributions, time-to-resolution curves, and attorney performance history before a request is prepared for independent capital providers.
Law firm capital rules, state by state.
Each state page covers how contingency-fee practices in that state use working capital, case-cost funding and portfolio lending, and the state rules that apply.
Browse by stateYour case inventory is an asset.
Succession, acquisition and sale or merger paths for firm owners, prepared for independent buyers and capital providers, with the inventory valued from the record.
Law firm successionSend the docket. Get a written read.
Questions
Solo practitioners to large regional firms. Capital structure and terms are set by the provider and calibrated to firm size, revenue, and case pipeline, not a one-size-fits-all product.
Working capital, case costs (expert witnesses, depositions, discovery), staff expansion, marketing, technology, and portfolio-level financing against your contingency fee pipeline.
Both structures exist. Providers can structure case cost financing and portfolio products as non-recourse against specific matters. Working capital lines are typically recourse to the firm.
Firm financials, a case inventory summary, fee agreement templates, and bar information. A docket read needs only the case list with stage, venue and expected resolution.
Yes. The firm portfolio health scan is a written read of your docket with no obligation to borrow. Rates and sizes come from the capital provider, not from the scan.