'Rip And Replace' Likely Done In 1 Year, FCC Says

By Christopher Cole

Telecom carriers will likely be finished with work across the country to remove risky foreign-made equipment from their networks in about a year, the head of the Federal Communications Commission told lawmakers Wednesday.

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FCC's Carr Clashes With Dems Over Verizon DEI Deal

By Christopher Cole

Congressional Democrats grilled the Federal Communications Commission's chief Wednesday about the legal basis for targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs at Verizon, days after the wireless giant agreed to drop DEI initiatives amid its takeover of Frontier Communications.

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Verizon Looks To Break Free Of TracFone Unlocking Condition

By Jared Foretek

Verizon is once again asking the Federal Communications Commission to let it out of a condition from its takeover of TracFone requiring the carrier to unlock its mobile phones after 60 days.

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Latham, Gibson Dunn Steer $5.75B Lumen, AT&T Fiber Deal

By Lauren Berg

Lumen Technologies, represented by Latham & Watkins, announced Wednesday that it is selling its Mass Markets fiber-to-the-home business in 11 states to AT&T Inc., represented by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, in a $5.75 billion cash deal that is expected to close in the first half of 2026.

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Trump Can't Fire Privacy Board Democrats, DC Court Says

By Nadia Dreid

The Trump administration is not allowed to remove two Democrats from the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Congress' privacy watchdog over the executive branch's counterterrorism policies, a D.C. federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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Wyden Urges Sens. To Switch Carriers Over Privacy Risks

By Rae Ann Varona

AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile failed to put in place systems notifying senators about government surveillance requests, despite being contractually required to, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., told his colleagues Wednesday, urging them in a letter to "seriously consider" switching mobile carriers for personal and campaign phones.

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Apple Lets Fortnite Back In App Store As Appeal Pends

By Matthew Perlman

Apple has allowed Epic Games to put its popular Fortnite video game back in the App Store, while the sides await a ruling on Apple's bid to pause an injunction mandating additional changes to its policies issued after the court found it had violated a previous order.

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Army Contract Protest Dismissed Over Filing Violations

By Tom Lotshaw

Multiple missed filing deadlines and public filings containing confidential information, despite repeated warnings, provided grounds to dismiss a Virginia company's challenge of a U.S. Army contract award for information technology services, a Court of Federal Claims Judge said Wednesday.

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Wachtell Guides OpenAI On $6.5B Io Products Acquisition

By Al Barbarino

OpenAI said Wednesday it will acquire io Products, the hardware startup co-founded by former Apple design chief Jony Ive, in a $6.5 billion transaction that represents the artificial intelligence company's largest acquisition to date.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: Becoming A Firmwide MVP

Though lawyers don't have a neat metric like baseball players for measuring the value they contribute to their organizations, the sooner new attorneys learn skills frequently skipped in law school — like networking, marketing, client development and case evaluation — the more valuable, and less replaceable, they will be, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

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The Status Of Biden-Era Immigration Suits: A Roundup

By Britain Eakin

Following the presidential transition, the U.S. Department of Justice moved to dismiss suits brought by the Biden administration challenging state immigration enforcement measures in Texas, Iowa and Oklahoma, leaving the status of those cases up in the air.

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Judge Warns Attys Using AI To 'Advocate — Not Hallucinate'

By Lauren Berg

A Florida federal judge on Tuesday sanctioned two attorneys in a shipping contract dispute for filing a brief that included a nonexistent case citation added by artificial intelligence, warning lawyers that they must "carefully evaluate, elucidate and advocate — not hallucinate" in their legal briefs.

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$1.8M From Legal Industry Fuels NYC Mayor's Race

By Anna Sanders

The legal industry poured at least $1.79 million into this year’s election for New York City mayor, the majority going to incumbent Eric Adams, attorney Jim Walden and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Law360 Pulse found.

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Democrats Wary of Nominees' Pledge To Honor Court Orders

By Courtney Bublé

Nominees for top roles at the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security fended off questions from Democrats on Wednesday about the Trump administration's willingness to defy court orders and pledged that the White House would at least follow rulings of the Supreme Court.

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Ford Hits Calif. Firms With RICO Suit Over Lemon Law Billing

By Emily Sawicki

The Ford Motor Co. sued several California-based law firms and lawyers in Los Angeles federal court Wednesday, accusing them of conspiring to overcharge clients and defraud major automotive manufacturers by more than $100 million by submitting falsely inflated time sheets in thousands of consumer protection cases.

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Girardi's Son-In-Law Was No 'Babe In The Woods,' Feds Say

By Lauraann Wood

The Chicago federal judge presiding over a summer client theft trial against Girardi Keese founder Tom Girardi's son-in-law should not limit the government's case based on positions it took during Girardi's California trial because its positions are consistent, and the cases are charged differently, prosecutors argued Wednesday.

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SF Law Firms' Ex-CFO Gets 3 Years For Embezzling $1.3M

By Bonnie Eslinger

A former chief financial officer of two San Francisco law firms was sentenced to just over three years in prison Wednesday for stealing more than $1.3 million from the firms and others, after one firm's founder said the defendant appeared to enjoy "stabbing us all in the back."

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Apologetic NJ Atty Gets 21 Months For $350K COVID Fraud

By George Woolston

A New Jersey attorney sentenced to 21 months in federal prison on Wednesday for claiming he was a business in order to receive nearly $350,000 earmarked for small businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic apologized to the court for the "embarrassment" he caused to the legal profession.

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Immigrant Groups Appeal Denied Bid To Halt IRS-ICE Deal

By Natalie Olivo

Immigrant advocacy groups on Wednesday appealed a D.C. federal judge's order denying their bid to block the IRS from sharing taxpayer data with immigration enforcement agencies, with their counsel warning "it will be too late" once the information is shared.

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