{"id":1876,"date":"2024-07-19T22:50:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T22:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-beasley-allen-should-not-be-disqualified-from-talc-leadership\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T22:50:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T22:50:48","slug":"judge-beasley-allen-should-not-be-disqualified-from-talc-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-beasley-allen-should-not-be-disqualified-from-talc-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge: Beasley Allen Should Not Be Disqualified From Talc Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A judge has rejected Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s move to disqualify Beasley Allen from leadership of the talcum powder litigation.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s order by Atlantic County Superior Court Judge John Porto comes one week before a key deadline in Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s pre-packaged third bankruptcy, which would provide $6.48 billion\u00a0to talc victims. Porto, who held an evidentiary hearing\u00a0on the disqualification issue on March 25, April 10\u00a0and May 3, alongside U.S. Magistrate Judge Rukhsanah Singh, in the District of New Jersey, concluded that Johnson &amp; Johnson hadn\u2019t provided evidence that its former attorney, James Conlan, founder of Legacy Liability Solutions LLC, had shared confidential information with Beasley Allen principal Andy Birchfield, in Montgomery, Alabama, when the two began working together a year ago on a plan to resolve the talc litigation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has rejected Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s move to disqualify Beasley Allen from leadership of the talcum powder litigation. Friday\u2019s order by Atlantic County Superior Court Judge John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1213,1212,2618,423,288,625],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-allen","tag-beasley","tag-disqualified","tag-judge","tag-leadership","tag-talc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}