AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have reached an agreement in principle to form a new joint venture aimed at ending wireless dead zones in the U.S. by pooling resources to increase capacity, according to an announcement made Thursday.
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AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Join Forces To End 'Dead Zones'

By Hailey Konnath

AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have reached an agreement in principle to form a new joint venture aimed at ending wireless dead zones in the U.S. by pooling resources to increase capacity, according to an announcement made Thursday.

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New Bill Would Ban Chinese Point-Of-Sale Tech For DOD

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Department of Defense would be banned from using any Chinese-made point-of-sale technology — devices like those that allow people to tap their cards to pay — in its buildings, if one Republican congressman gets his way.

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3 Firms Steer Iridium, Aireon On $367M Aviation Satellite Deal

By Al Barbarino

Iridium Communications Inc. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire the remaining stake in Aireon LLC for nearly $367 million, consolidating full ownership of the space-based aircraft surveillance provider in a deal steered by three law firms.

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ENFORCEMENT

Fla. Property Manager To Pay Evicted Sailor $60K In DOJ Deal

By Nate Beck

A Florida property management company will pay $60,000 to a U.S. Navy sailor to settle allegations by federal prosecutors that the company used a false affidavit to win an eviction that forced the sailor to live apart from his wife — at times on a Navy ship with no heat.

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LITIGATION

Pension Fund Seeks To Enforce $16.2M BAE Systems Bill

By Ganesh Setty

The Machinists union's pension fund asked a D.C. federal court to approve an arbitrator's rejection of BAE Systems Inc.'s claims that the fund improperly calculated its roughly $16.2 million withdrawal liability.

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4th Circ. Says Tribe Can Reclaim Boarding School Remains

By Crystal Owens

The U.S. Army must repatriate the remains of two Indigenous children from a former Indian boarding school cemetery in Pennsylvania, a split Fourth Circuit panel determined Thursday, saying the site qualifies as a holding or collection under a federal law designed to protect Native American burial sites.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

New Cuba Sanctions Raise Risks For Foreign Banks, Cos.

President Donald Trump's bold move leveling secondary sanctions against Cuba expands enforcement risk for foreign banks and companies with no U.S. nexus, signaling that non-U.S. businesses should reassess related transactions, counterparties and exposure as regulators test this broader authority, say attorneys at Troutman.

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Series

Playing Basketball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

My grandfather used to say "I wear your jersey" as shorthand for wholly committing to support someone with loyalty and integrity — ideals that have shaped my life on the basketball court and in legal practice, says Tracy Schimelfenig at Schimelfenig Legal.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Analysis

Insider Trading Case Shows BigLaw Associate Vetting Gaps

By Chris Villani

A BigLaw attorney who was able to move through three major firms while allegedly orchestrating a massive insider trading scheme may have been aided by relatively loose hiring practices for associates that firms may consider strengthening moving forward, recruiting experts told Law360.

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DOJ Asserts Broad Power In BigLaw Executive Order Appeal

By Jared Foretek

A Trump administration attorney told the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that the courts have no authority to review the president's decision to revoke someone's security clearance for any reason, including race, religion, or even refusal to pay a $1 million bribe.

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Trump's 8th Circ. Pick Clears Senate Panel Vote

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's nominee for the Eighth Circuit, who represented the president in the cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, advanced to the full Senate on Thursday.

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Thomas Urges Defense Of Constitution At Judicial Conference

By Carolina Bolado

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged attendees at the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference on Thursday to "stand up" for the U.S. Constitution and to see the positives in the country, despite its flaws, on its 250th birthday.

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Fenwick Hit With FTX Suit In DC Over $525M Losses

By Emily Lever

A group of former FTX customers has sued Fenwick & West LLP in federal court in Washington over its work representing FTX from 2018 to 2022, seeking to recover more than $525 million for losses stemming from the cryptocurrency exchange's collapse.

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NYC Bar Endorses Random Audits For Law Firm Accounts

By Emily Sawicki

The New York City Bar Association's Professional Discipline Committee on Thursday threw its support behind a statewide bill to institute a random audit program for law firm financial accounts.

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Ogletree Fights Atty's Discovery Bid For DQ Push In Bias Suit

By Lynn LaRowe

A Georgia federal court should deny a bid for discovery aimed at disqualifying Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from defending a security company against discrimination claims because the request stems from the plaintiff's lawyer's "personal grievances," the company said Thursday.

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Lover's Ex-Wife Fights Sinema's Request For Therapy Notes

By Abigail Harrison

A bid by former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to unearth notes and communications from a therapist working with her lover's ex-wife should be summarily denied, as the ex-wife, Heather Ammel, told a North Carolina federal court Thursday that the request is a clear overreach.

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8th Circ. Backs Dismissal Of Horse Breeder's Malpractice Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

The Eighth Circuit said a federal judge was right to dismiss a malpractice suit a Minnesota horse breeder brought against Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP and one of its former attorneys for mishandling malpractice cases against three other firms.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ADT Inc.

AT&T Inc.

Aireon LLC

BAE Systems PLC

Beacon Hill Staffing Group LLC

IAM National Pension Fund

ING Groep NV

Iridium Communications Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Microsoft Corp.

Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Native American Rights Fund Inc.

New York City Bar Association

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Rural Wireless Association

T-Mobile US Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc.

Watanabe Schwartz

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Big Fire Law

Bradford Andresen

Bush Ross

Clement & Murphy

Cooley LLP

Cultural Heritage Partners

Dorsey & Whitney

Fenwick & West

Foley & Mansfield

Goodwin Procter

Hogan Lovells

Jenner & Block

Kirkland & Ellis

Koskoff Koskoff

Latham & Watkins

Lehman Lee

Lowell & Associates

Milbank LLP

Munger Tolles

Ogletree Deakins

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Porter Wright

Poyner Spruill

Proskauer Rose

Sidley Austin

Susman Godfrey

Taft Stettinius

Troutman

Van Camp Meacham

Wachtell Lipton

Watkins Calcara

Weil Gotshal

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Georgia Department of Labor

Office of Foreign Assets Control

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. Navy

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Winnebago Tribe