A North Carolina plaintiffs firm facing a proposed class action over unwanted robocalls related to Camp Lejeune water contamination litigation is now suing its marketing company, telling a Charlotte federal court the company should cover any potential damages and legal fees.
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DeMayo Says Marketers Owe Coverage In Camp Lejeune Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

A North Carolina plaintiffs firm facing a proposed class action over unwanted robocalls related to Camp Lejeune water contamination litigation is now suing its marketing company, telling a Charlotte federal court the company should cover any potential damages and legal fees.

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DOD Says Chipmaker Belongs On Chinese Military List

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Defense has said it has "substantial" evidence to back labeling Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. a Chinese military company because its products have military applications, urging a D.C. federal judge to reject the chipmaker's lawsuit challenging the label.

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Boeing Owed Duty To Worker's Future Kid, Wash. Panel Says

By Rachel Riley

Boeing must face claims that a factory worker's on-the-job chemical exposure caused birth defects in his child, a Washington Court of Appeals panel said in a published ruling Monday, finding that an employer "may be liable for negligence towards an employee's not-yet-conceived offspring."

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POLICY & REGULATION

Brief

FCC Commish Focuses On Spectrum In Trips Around Globe

By Christopher Cole

Commissioner Olivia Trusty of the Federal Communications Commission has kept global spectrum policy at top of mind, and her travel schedule shows it.

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Brief

AT&T Seeks FCC's OK To Change Covered Routers

By Nadia Dreid

AT&T is asking the Federal Communications Commission to greenlight hardware changes to foreign-made routers, which the agency recently placed on the covered list, arguing the artificial intelligence boom has created a shortage that makes getting replacements difficult.

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LITIGATION

CACI Says Army Contract Partner Broke Deals, Poached Staff

By Tom Lotshaw

A CACI Inc. unit has accused Maryland-based T2S LLC of breaching a series of contract agreements between the companies and unlawfully poaching at least 20 of its employees for a U.S. Army cybersecurity initiative.

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NYT Attacks Pentagon's Media Escort Policy In New Suit

By Gina Kim

The New York Times filed a second lawsuit in D.C. federal court on Monday challenging the Department of Defense's interim policy requiring reporters to be accompanied by an official escort while on Pentagon premises, arguing that it revives vacated prohibitions on newsgathering that were already found to be unconstitutional.

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1st Circ. Keeps Union's Contract With VA Intact During Appeal

By Carolyn Muyskens

The First Circuit denied a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs request to shelve its contract with a union representing government workers during an appeal, while also pausing a lower court's order that the VA must abide by grievance procedures in the contract. 

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PEOPLE

Holland & Knight Taps Wiley Leader As Telecom Chair

By Jack Rodgers

Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday it has hired the former co-chair of Wiley's wireless practice in Washington to take the reins of the Tampa, Florida-headquartered firm's telecommunications, media and technology team as chair.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Judges On AI: How Courts Can Survive The Tech Revolution

Colorado Supreme Court Justice Maria Berkenkotter and Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Lino Lipinsky de Orlov discuss how artificial intelligence has already fundamentally altered the legal system and offer tips for courts navigating deepfakes, hallucinations and a gap in access to AI tools.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

The 2026 Summer Associates Survey

By Daniela Porat

Law students hoping to land summer associate roles at their dream firms have to start applying earlier and earlier, forcing students to strike a difficult balance between focusing on academics and completing applications. Find out how students navigated the ever-competitive process and which firms topped students’ wish lists in the latest survey from Law360 Pulse.

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Cooley Adds Privacy Duo From Perkins Coie In DC, Denver

By Andrea Keckley

Cooley LLP announced on Tuesday that it has welcomed two attorneys to its cyber, data and privacy practice from Perkins Coie LLP, one of whom had cochaired that firm's privacy and security practice.

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Brother May Pay Ex-BigLaw Atty's Legal Fees In Insider Case

By Julie Manganis

A former BigLaw associate charged with orchestrating a sweeping insider trading scheme can have his legal expenses covered by his co-defendant brother if the two waive potential conflicts, a Massachusetts federal magistrate judge said Tuesday.

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Ex-Trader Says Crypto Co.'s Bid For Sanctions Is 'Unfounded'

By Hayley Fowler

A former trader said a cryptocurrency company is using an "unfounded" characterization of his deposition conduct to seek sanctions and lend credence to facts it hasn't otherwise been able to prove in its suit accusing him of usurping $8.1 million in digital assets.

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Akerman Goes All In With AI At Orlando Retreat

By Matt Perez

When planning Akerman LLP's employee retreat held once every two years, chief executive Scott Meyers quickly honed in on artificial intelligence and how he wanted the firm to think about the technology.

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Seeborg's Term As Calif. Northern District Chief Judge To End

By Bonnie Eslinger

Chief District Judge Richard Seeborg is expected to conclude his time as the top judge for the Northern District of California in July, according to a spokesperson for the judiciary, to be succeeded by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.

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Nelson Mullins Partner Confirmed To SC Federal Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 52-38 on Tuesday to confirm Sheria Clarke, a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, as a judge for the District of South Carolina.

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$1.8B IRS Deal Fund 'Not Slush Fund,' Blanche Tells Senators

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche argued before a Senate committee on Tuesday that the nearly $1.8 billion settlement fund announced on Monday as part of the president's settlement with the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax documents "is not a slush fund."

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Federation of Government Employees

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Binance Holdings Ltd.

CACI International Inc.

CorMedix Inc.

DJI Technology Inc.

Google LLC

Heckmann Corporation

Johnson & Johnson

Legal Conversion Center

LinkedIn Corp.

Mechanical Licensing Collective

Microsoft Corp.

Network Advertising Initiative

Oakland Athletics

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Pixar Inc.

Roblox Corp.

The Boeing Co.

The New York Times Co.

USG Corp.

University of Southern California

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akerman LLP

Alston & Bird

Bayko Prebeg

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

DeMayo Law Offices

Dentons

Flannery Georgalis

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Holland & Knight

Keker Van

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Looper Goodwine

Martin G. Weinberg PC

Morrison & Foerster

Nelson Mullins

Perkins Coie

Quinn Emanuel

Rottenberg Lipman

Sidley Austin

Waters Kraus

Weinstein Caggiano

Wilder Pantazis

Wiley Rein

Winston & Strawn

Womble Bond

Zimmer Citron

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Colorado Supreme Court

Federal Communications Commission

Internal Revenue Service

International Telecommunication Union

Mesa County, Colorado

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate