Validity Finance, LLC CEO Ralph Sutton, who earlier this year left litigation funder Bentham IMF to start his own litigation funding shop, has recruited two more former Bentham legal counsels, both of whom also spent time as Big Law litigators before moving into finance.

Validity announced Tuesday the arrival of David Kerstein, a former Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher litigator who joins as chief risk officer, and Julia Gewolb, a former Boies Schiller Flexner lawyer who comes to Validity as director of underwriting. The new Validity hires were both most recently at Bentham, where Kerstein served as a senior investment officer and Gewolb served as legal counsel.