Welcome to Critical Mass, Law.com’s weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. Here’s what’s happening this week: Lawyers at Cotchett Pitre and Freed Kanner fought to keep their leadership posts in two separate MDLs. Plaintiffs’ firms objecting to their share of $550M in mesh fees keep the fight alive. And another talcum powder trial begins in California’s Alameda County Superior Court.

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