Telecommunications Law Professionals (TLP), created specifically to support...
Telecommunications Law Professionals (TLP), created specifically to support MetroPCS, said Thursday it’s suing T-Mobile US for terminating the law firm’s contract when T-Mobile combined with MetroPCS earlier this year. TLP said the MetroPCS contract was major enough that the firm…
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won’t be able to operate without it. The firm seeks nearly $7 million in fees it would have collected through June 30, 2015, as part of its contract. T-Mobile told TLP in May that it was ending the contract, which the law firm believes is a breach of the contract because T-Mobile didn’t object to the contract when it finalized the merger, said the complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. TLP claimed T-Mobile knew about MetroPCS’s contract with TLP well before the deal closed. “There was no cause for the purported termination of the Retainer Agreement other than T-Mobile’s decision to use other legal counsel for its telecommunications law needs,” TLP said in the complaint (http://bit.ly/13qpGJ7). T-Mobile didn’t immediately comment.