Reported by:  Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. (with special thanks to Johann Jurgens who is a telecom analyst for a hedge fund and is an advisor to The Posse List on the telecom industry)  21 March 2011 — Late yesterday AT&T and Deutsche Telekom announced an agreement for the sale of T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in cash and [...]

Oil, oil, oil, oil …. As has been reported in the Wall Street Journal, Lawyer Weekly and various other sources, companies that potentially face civil or criminal liability for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have hired a large cast of outside legal help, including former high-level government attorneys and a top product-liability lawyer.  BP [...]

Student Debt Relief-Income-Based Repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness January 20 at 6:00 pm in the offices of Arnold & Porter at 555 12th Street NW Washington, DC The Washington Council of Lawyers is pleased to host this presentation on the most significant law affecting public service in a generation:  the College Cost Reduction and [...]

ILSLC (Part 2:  wrap-up) We want to finish our review of last week’s International Legal Support Leaders Conference (ILSLC) with a focus on U.S. foreign language document reviews and document reviews outside the U.S. (for our others posts on the ILSLC click here). As we have indicated in previous posts the last few months, foreign language [...]