Law firm capital in California.

Permitted — well established

Docket-backed financing requests for California contingency practices (single-case, portfolio, working-capital, and case-expense facilities), evaluated on court records.

Firms in California carry case costs and payroll long before fees arrive. Criterica Capital reads the docket and prepares working capital, case-cost, settlement bridge and portfolio requests for independent capital providers, who set the terms.

Funding Posture

California is the largest and most active litigation finance market in the United States. The state does not maintain a champerty prohibition, and commercial litigation funding is well established. Criterica Capital prepares financing requests for consideration by independent capital providers, with attention to the applicable professional-responsibility rules.

California Legal Market

Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, and the Bay Area form the nation's deepest legal market. California leads in mass tort, IP and technology litigation, employment class actions (including PAGA), consumer class actions, and wildfire litigation.

Active Practice Areas
Mass tort and wildfire inventories
Employment and PAGA class actions
IP and technology litigation
Consumer class actions
Capital Available to California Firms
Single-Case Financing
Capital for a specific high-cost matter, repaid from that case's resolution.
Portfolio Financing
A facility against a defined group of cases, with flexible draws across the docket.
Working Capital
Operating liquidity against the firm's active caseload — overhead, salaries, growth.
Case Expense Financing
Non-recourse capital for experts, e-discovery, and trial costs on qualifying matters.
Capital for your California practice.
Send a docket summary for a confidential assessment.