"Jeff Anderson is not interested in reforming the church, but in the huge cash settlements he will receive," said Joe Maher. He uses words like "unscrupulous" to describe lawyers such as Anderson who take on the church. They "prey upon people with emotional disorders or unbalanced lives" with promises of huge payoffs, he said.
“In this past year in particular, we’re seeing a lot of accusations that are blatantly false,” Maher said. Maher advises priests that “if it really is a false allegation, scream it from the rooftops and never stop saying it.”