J&J’s Failed Talc Bankruptcies Put Some Firms in Bind: The Brief

LAWYERS WHO poured time and resources into pushing Johnson & Johnson’s failed efforts to resolve mass tort talc litigation through the US bankruptcy system are now staring down a mid-June deadline to file tens of thousands of suits in civil court before statutory time limits expire — a multimillion-dollar task with no guaranteed payoff, Alex Wolf and Emily R. Siegel report.

• J&J’s third effort to resolve lawsuits alleging its baby powder and other consumer talc products were tainted with cancer-causing asbestos was dismissed after a bankruptcy court trial revealed the extent to which some attorneys viewed the gambit as an ...