Mike Spector is an Investigative Reporter for Reuters’ legal team. He strives to pursue special reports and other enterprising and exclusive stories that expose wrongdoing, highlight threats to consumers and illuminate how ordinary people are affected by the decisions of judges and lawyers across the United States. His stories often involve corporate crises linked to bankruptcy proceedings, mass tort litigation and government investigations. He was the first journalist to expose Johnson and Johnson’s plan to offload into bankruptcy lawsuits alleging its iconic Baby Powder and other cosmetic talc products caused cancer. A series he led explaining how companies and nonprofits use the bankruptcy system to evade lawsuits over sexual abuse and deadly products received the Deadline Club’s Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative Reporting. He has also investigated pervasive secrecy in American courts that covers up evidence of deadly products and allegations from Black women that chemical hair relaxers sold by large cosmetics companies caused cancer. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal covering bankruptcy, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and the automotive industry.
