Lawyers from the Justice Department and AT&T gathered in a small Washington courtroom Thursday to meet the judge who will oversee their legal battle, one of the biggest antitrust cases in decades. As Judge Richard Leon lumbered into the room, assembled before him were two conference tables full of attorneys for both sides. “This is not a normal case,” Leon said, speaking with traces of the accent he picked up during his childhood in South Natick, Mass. Antitrust experts say that if you want to get a sense of how the AT&T-Justice Department case might unfold, you could look at another telecom acquisition he oversaw years ago. Before becoming a judge, Leon worked in private practice and at the Justice Department.

Source: Washington Post December 07, 2017 22:51 UTC