The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to require companies seeking telecommunications approvals to attest in writing if they are owned or controlled by foreign adversaries in a bid to increase national security in the media and telecom industries.
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FCC To Collect More Info On Cos.' Ties With US Adversaries

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to require companies seeking telecommunications approvals to attest in writing if they are owned or controlled by foreign adversaries in a bid to increase national security in the media and telecom industries.

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Feature

From TikTok To The Courtroom, The Rise Of Lawfluencers

By Chris Villani

A growing group of legal influencers with huge followings say social media use is helping them expand their practices along with their brands and offering marketing lessons that even BigLaw can learn from.

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NJ Justices Disbar Pa. Atty Over Client Theft Conviction

By Adrian Cruz

The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to prohibit a now-imprisoned Pennsylvania attorney from practicing law in the state, following a recommendation to disbar the man convicted for stealing around $90,000 from clients.

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Trump Sues IRS, Treasury For $10B Over Tax Doc Leak

By Rae Ann Varona

President Donald Trump is seeking at least $10 billion in damages in a new lawsuit filed Thursday in Miami federal court that accuses the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of the Treasury of failing to prevent a former IRS contractor from leaking Trump's tax returns to news outlets.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Md. Tech Groups Praise Cybersecurity Tax Credit Plan

By Sanjay Talwani

Expanding eligibility for Maryland's cybersecurity tax credit would help more customers use tools from companies in the state to protect their data and information systems, industry representatives and the state's Commerce Department director told legislators Thursday.

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ENFORCEMENT

Feds Eye Default Forfeiture In $1.2M Crypto Scam Claims

By Aaron Keller

Federal authorities have asked a Connecticut federal judge to issue a default judgment and forfeiture decree against Tether cryptocurrency wallets tied to an alleged $1.2 million artificial intelligence trading fraud scheme.

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Calif. Jury Convicts Ex-Google Engineer Of Stealing AI Secrets

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal jury on Thursday found former Google software engineer Linwei Ding guilty of seven counts of trade secret theft and seven counts of economic espionage in a criminal trial over allegations that he stole the tech giant's artificial intelligence trade secrets to help himself and China.

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LITIGATION

Fitness App Must Face Trimmed Suit Over Tracking Cookies

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge cut several wiretap and fraud claims from a proposed class action accusing MyFitnessPal of allowing third parties to track the browsing activities of website visitors who rejected the use of tracking cookies while allowing the plaintiffs to proceed with invasion of privacy and two other allegations.

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PubMatic Fails To Score Complete Dismissal Of Privacy Suit

By Corey Rothauser

A California federal judge has largely refused to dismiss a proposed class action that accuses digital advertising firm PubMatic Inc. of secretly tracking internet users across the web and selling their data, with the judge allowing most privacy and wiretapping claims to move forward.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Playing Tennis Makes Me A Better Lawyer

An instinct to turn pain into purpose meant frequent trips to the tennis court, where learning to move ahead one point at a time was a lesson that also applied to the steep learning curve of patent prosecution law, says Daniel Henry at Marshall Gerstein.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Ex-Worker Says Goldstein Offered Crypto, Gifts As IRS Probed

By Jared Foretek

A former employee at Thomas Goldstein's law firm who resigned after the Internal Revenue Service began investigating the firm said that the SCOTUSblog founder suddenly began offering her bitcoin, payment from case settlements and potential student loan relief after federal agents visited the office.

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Clemency Favors White Collar Offenders, New Study Shows

By Phillip Bantz

White collar criminal defendants are more likely than other types of offenders to receive presidential pardons, especially under the Trump administration, a new analysis of clemency actions shows, raising concerns about a system one expert called "broken."

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Attacks Haven't Killed Judiciary's AI Rule, May Strengthen It

By Jeff Overley

Federal judiciary advisers Thursday confronted the most extensive opposition yet in their campaign to ensure the reliability of evidence utilizing artificial intelligence, but the criticism appeared constructive, possibly upping the odds of a digital age addition to U.S. court rules.

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DOJ Awards $1M In First For Antitrust Whistleblower Program

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division awarded a whistleblower $1 million for providing information that led to charges and a $3.28 million criminal fine against used-vehicle auction site EBlock, marking the first-ever award under a new antitrust whistleblower program, the DOJ announced Thursday.

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Crowell & Moring Loses DC Appeal In $30M COVID Rent Dispute

By Isaac Monterose

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled against Crowell & Moring LLP's appeal for its $30 million rent dispute with a D.C. office landlord that refused to grant a coronavirus-related rent abatement.

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Bondi Elevates Pa. US Atty Amid Appointments Scrutiny

By Matthew Santoni

The first assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania is being retained and elevated to full U.S. attorney, Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced Thursday, though the appointment will have to remain temporary or he could face the same questions about his appointment as other top prosecutors in President Donald Trump's administration.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Baker & Hostetler

Brito PLLC

Bursor & Fisher

Crowell & Moring

Dentons

DiCello Levitt

Fieldfisher

Frederick M. Lehrer Attorney at Law

Goldstein & Russell

Goodwin Procter

Gutride Safier

Hogan Lovells

King & Spalding

Linklaters LLP

Marshall Gerstein

Mintz Levin

Munger Tolles

Ogletree Deakins

Redgrave LLP

Reed Smith

Seyfarth Shaw

Shook Hardy

Ven Johnson Law

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

Coinbase Global Inc.

Google LLC

Instagram Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Ohio State University

OpenAI OpCo LLC

PubMatic Inc.

The Home Depot Inc.

The New York Times Co.

TikTok Inc.

Trump Organization Inc.

YMCA of the USA

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Election Commission

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

New Jersey Supreme Court

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office

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

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

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

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 Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

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 Northern District of New York

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

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court