Soliciting personal injury cases may constitute champerty.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Last week, this little gem was passed around Greg Aharonian's newsletter, which prompted cries of "champerty" from some of the readers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

There is a centuries-old principle in law, called "champerty," that prevents third parties from buying an interest in another's lawsuit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Derivatives Necessary, Should Be Regulated] Reference

Yesterday's term was champerty , which is defined as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sui Generis--a New York law blog:] Reference

Note: In the old common law champerty and maintenance were prohibited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judge H. Lee Sarokin: What Do Dog-Fights and Gloria Allred Have In Common?] Reference

In England, contingent fees are held to be clearly within the statutes of champerty and maintenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference

Rebecca Tushnet's 43 (B) log: Rare champerty ruling in false advertising case skip to main | skip to sidebar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rare champerty ruling in false advertising case] Reference

One state that recognizes champerty, albeit in a very limited sense, is New York see New York Judiciary Law § 489.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

For other states, however, the extent to which courts apply champerty is in flux, although the trend of avoiding champerty persists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

The theory, if I understand it correctly, is that Microsoft is trying to destroy Linux by something akin to champerty and maintenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Computer Crime Law, Second Edition] Reference

The common law doctrine of champerty was developed centuries ago to prohibit contractual or other arrangements designed to "foment litigation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

I'm going to guess that champerty has to do with giving prospective clients loans or gifts to encourage litigation and barratry is stirring up vexatious litigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Define That Term #20] Reference

In states where champerty is recognized, the application of the doctrine is generally limited to agreements that have as their "sole or primary purpose" the prosecution of litigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

Some have even questioned whether lawsuits should be freed from champerty altogether, where a form of venture capitalism would exists, allowing investors to back all forms of litigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

Del Webb sued defendants for champerty and maintenance (!), false advertising under state and federal law, and intentional interference with the contracts between Del Webb and its customers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

Essentially, champerty covered agreements between "a stranger to a lawsuit and a litigant by which the stranger pursues the litigant's claim as consideration for receiving part of judgment proceeds.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

But the only reason I know this is b/c in a strange coincidence slickpdx and I were just talking about champerty and barratry the other day and whether the general prohibition against it applies to nonprofits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Define That Term #20] Reference

That champerty is an offence at common law, and that contracts of that character, between client and counsel, are void on that ground, and as against public policy, will be found to have been maintained in Rust.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference

None of the English statutes on the subject of champerty have been reported as in force here; but it was once a question whether it was not an offence at common law, independently altogether, of any statute enactment.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference

Since the 1900's, champerty was recognized less and less frequently, until many states either narrowed the doctrine to the point of irrelevancy, or abolished it altogether California, New Jersey, Massachusetts are such examples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

(For true legal geeks, there is a brief and uncommon discussion of anti-champerty laws).    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology & Marketing Law Blog] Reference

Unforatunately, every lawyer trained since then seems to use that period to justify champerty and barratry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference

"Maintenance" is the officious intermeddling by a stranger into a private lawsuit, and "champerty" is the pursuit of maintenance for profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles] Reference

The lawyers usually contrived to get their money by exacting retainers in advance, and the practice of champerty was common, whereby the lawyer did his work in consideration of a percentage on the sum which was at last forcibly collected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Critical Period of American History] Reference

"Andersen," said I, moving up to the group, "did you ever hear of such things as champerty and maintenance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart's Desire] Reference

Here, the claim is really champerty: defendants would make money from clients’ recovery against Del Webb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

A lawsuit, "says Chancellor Kent," by an attorney, is champerty in its most odious form; and it ought equally to be condemned on principles of public policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference

Gibson, "to discuss the legality of contingent fees; though it be clear that if the British statutes of champerty were in force here, such fees would be prohibited by them.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference

That’s because their business model depends on their continued commission of maintenance and champerty, both of which used to be considered criminal and tortious behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » U.S. Citizen Sues Over Alleged Rendition] Reference

I confuse champerty with barratry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Define That Term #20] Reference

The defendants were liable for champerty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

Add the charge of collusion to champerty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daimnation!: Good riddance (II)] Reference

Rare champerty ruling in false advertising case.    From Wordnik.com.  [WIPIP at Seton Hall part 3] Reference

125 onljr availing remedy: one ftroke of ic for che muftjr laws againft maintenance and champerty: another for the more recent ones againft ufury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defence of usury: shewing the impolicy of the present legal restraints on the terms of pecuniary ...] Reference

champerty, not “champarty”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Tax Break for Trial Lawyers?] Reference