J&J Talc Suit Law Firms Clash Over $6.5 Billion Settlement (2)

Three law firms leading the massive suit against Johnson & Johnson over cancer-causing talc products are now fighting each other in court.

Alabama’s Beasley Allen sued Smith Law Firm and Porter Malouf on Tuesday, alleging that the two firms owe it more than $1 million in litigation expenses related to the J&J case. Beasley Allen also says Smith Law and its founder Robert Allen Smith pushed clients to vote in favor of a controversial settlement deal in the case because of pressure to pay off a large debt—"perhaps as high as $240 million"—to its outside litigation funder.

“The financial problems ...