Brian Anthony McAleenan

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Duane Morris LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Lead trial counsel for AT&T in case presenting novel issues of whether the rural CLEC exemption is available to local carriers that (i) have both incumbent
  CLEC operations,
  /or (ii) offer, but do not provide, service in urban areas.
  Lead counsel for AT&T before Federal Communications Commission in dispute concerning local telephone carrier's liability to refund amounts paid to a billing agent engaged in fraud
  final Order pending.
  Represented AT&T in federal court
  the Federal Communications Commission in access arbitrage dispute concerning whether conference call providers were end users under governing tariffs
  regulations, as well as the obligation of competitive carriers to provide direct connections to long distance carriers, that settled on terms the client found favorable.
  Represented AT&T in transport charge dispute that resulted in victory before the Federal Communications Commission with a seminal Order barring mileage pumping as an unreasonable practice.
  Lead trial counsel for AT&T in dispute concerning both two-stage calling, on which the carrier prevailed on summary judgment,
  proper application of the VoIP-symmetry rule, which settled favorably on the eve of trial.