The U.S. General Services Administration said Thursday it has cut the largest energy procurement deal in its history after purchasing 10 million megawatt-hours of electricity from Baltimore-based Constellation New Energy Inc. in combined energy contracts totaling more than $1 billion.
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TOP NEWS

Feds Ink $1B Supply Deal With Constellation Nuke Plants

By Dorothy Atkins

The U.S. General Services Administration said Thursday it has cut the largest energy procurement deal in its history after purchasing 10 million megawatt-hours of electricity from Baltimore-based Constellation New Energy Inc. in combined energy contracts totaling more than $1 billion.

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GAO Rejects Telecom Co.'s Protest Of DOD Contract Denial

By Madeline Lyskawa

A Bahrain telecommunications company failed to specify the make and model of the equipment required to secure a U.S. Department of Defense contract, the Government Accountability Office said, rejecting the company's claim that the agency wrongly deemed its quote unacceptable.

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Hogan Lovells Gets $1.25M Afghanistan Award OK'd

By Caroline Simson

Hogan Lovells won enforcement on Thursday of a $1.25 million arbitral award it won against Afghanistan over its representation of the country in various legal matters, an award that the new Taliban-led government has ignored for two years.

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Analysis

Trump Transition Underway At Key Environmental Agencies

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

President-elect Donald Trump's landing team — tasked with aiding the upcoming transition in the White House — is busy gathering information to set the new administration on course to implement its priorities on day one.

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DC US Atty Matthew Graves Stepping Down Jan. 16

By Rae Ann Varona

Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for D.C. who led the federal investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, said he'll be stepping down as the capital's top federal prosecutor four days before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Issa Again Selected To Lead House IP Subcommittee

By Ryan Davis

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., will again lead the House subcommittee overseeing intellectual property in the upcoming Congress, a role in which he has sponsored bills seeking to limit how many patents can be asserted in biosimilar cases and require disclosure of litigation funding.

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ENFORCEMENT

Citi Unit Fined Over Analysts Who Didn't Take FINRA Exam

By Emilie Ruscoe

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims that three of its municipal securities research analysts authored hundreds of research reports without having taken their subject area's required exam.

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LITIGATION

IT Firm Loses Effort To Make GSA Add Evidence In Bid Protest

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Thursday reaffirmed that an information tech consulting firm can't force the federal government to add evidence to the administrative record in litigation over its terminated IT contract with the U.S. Air Force.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Playing Esports Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Competing in a global esports tournament at Wimbledon last year not only fulfilled my childhood dream, but also sharpened skills that are essential to my day job, including strategic thinking, confidence and networking, says AJ Schuyler at Jackson Lewis.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Bonus Spotlight

Holland & Knight Matches BigLaw Bonuses In Major Markets

By Anna Sanders

Holland & Knight LLP announced associates in major U.S. markets will receive year-end and special bonuses matching those given by other BigLaw firms, with attorneys working in regional offices making smaller figures, according to a report.

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Biden Honors Del. Jurist For Role In Brown V. Board Ruling

By Jeff Montgomery

President Joe Biden issued a top civilian award, posthumously, to former Chancellor Collins J. Seitz of Delaware Chancery Court, father of the state's current chief justice, for his role in decisions woven into the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling.

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Clyde & Co. Merges With Dallas Insurance Boutique

By Emily Sawicki

Clyde & Co. LLP has announced a merger with Dallas boutique Tillman Batchelor LLP, expanding the global law firm's insurance capabilities in Texas amid its ongoing growth in North America.

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Taft Hired BCLP Comms Director Ahead Of Merger

By Andrea Keckley

Once its merger with Sherman & Howard LLC became effective at the start of the new year, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP announced Thursday it had hired Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's former director of communications.

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AI Chatbots Will Transform Legal Scholarship, AI Chatbot Says

By Matt Perez

Generative artificial intelligence like OpenAI's ChatGPT software will redefine legal scholarship, according to a new paper primarily produced by the chatbot.

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States Debate High Court Solution To Election Map Catch-22

By Katie Buehler

Louisiana has implored the U.S. Supreme Court to decisively resolve litigation over its federal election map in one of three ways, suggesting the justices could toss the case on standing, decide the merits, or, preferably, find that federal courts have no role in refereeing redistricting disputes.

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Ex-GMU Prof.'s Accusers Say He Can't Prove $108M Damages

By Aebra Coe

Former FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright allegedly failed to provide information to back his $108 million defamation damages claim and then walked out of a deposition, according to a Virginia court filing by two former students whom Wright sued over their statements to Law360.

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Atty Wants Free Speech Suit Over Tenn. Court Rule Kept Alive

By Jack Karp

A free speech challenge to a Middle District of Tennessee rule barring attorneys from making "any extrajudicial statements" about cases in the district should be allowed to move forward since the court is not entitled to sovereign immunity, according to the Nashville civil rights lawyer behind the suit.

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Giuliani Says Memory Faulty In Meandering NY Contempt Row

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge mulled a bid to hold Rudy Giuliani in contempt of a $148 million defamation judgment Friday, during a day of sparring in which the former New York City mayor repeatedly told counsel for two defamed Georgia poll workers that he doesn't remember case details.

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Battling Berts: Judge Enjoins Ga. Law Firm In Trademark Row

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia federal judge Friday temporarily barred an Atlanta-based law firm from advertising and promoting its personal injury legal services through messaging like "If You're Hurt ... Call Bert!" and "If You're Hurt, Call Bert," ruling that it is too similar to another personal injury firm's trademarked slogan.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

How to deal with diversity, climate change and artificial intelligence are the key issues giving general counsel night terrors at the start of the new year. And in Delaware, the Chancery Court is allowing a stockholder suit to move forward against Fox Corp., related to its false reports of voting fraud in 2020.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Chris Eubank Jr. hit with a libel claim from a boxing promoter, a perfume boss face proceedings from his businesses following sanctions violations claims, and Israeli broadcasters file intellectual property claims against BT and Sky. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alston & Bird

Beale & Co. Solicitors

Bert Brock Law

Beveridge & Diamond

Binnall Law Group

Bird & Bird

Brabners LLP

Bracewell LLP

Bryan Cave

Clark Hill

Clyde & Co

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

Dentons

Dhillon Law Group

DuBose Miller

Eversheds Sutherland

Freshfields

Fried Frank

Goodwin Procter

Graves Garrett

Gray Cary

Hancock Daniel

Harrison LLP

Hill Dickinson

Hirschler

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hunton Andrews

Irwin Mitchell

Jackson Lewis PC

Jenner & Block

Katten Muchin

Keoghs LLP

Keystone Law

Kirkland & Ellis

Lewis Silkin

Massumi & Consoli

McDermott Will & Emery

Milbank LLP

Mullin Hoard

Neal Gerber

Norton Rose

Parnall Law Firm

Paul Weiss

Peacock Law PC

Penningtons Manches

Perkins Coie

Pinsent Masons

Quainton Law

Quicker Law LLC

Roythornes Solicitors

Sedgwick LLP

Seyfarth Shaw

Simmons & Simmons

Taft Stettinius

Trowers & Hamlins

Trump & Trump

Vasseghi Law

White & Case

Willkie Farr

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ARK Investment Management LLC

Amazon.com Inc.

American Arbitration Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.

British American Tobacco PLC

Chevron Corp.

Citigroup Inc.

CoreCivic Inc.

Digital River Inc.

DuckDuckGo Inc.

EE Ltd.

ESPN Inc.

Ecolab Inc.

Emirates NBD Bank PJSC

Exceed Company Ltd.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

Fox Corp.

Google LLC

Institute for Justice

LG Electronics Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Marriott International Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Mozilla Corp.

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Congress of American Indians

New Civil Liberties Alliance

PJM Interconnection LLC

Public Joint Stock Co. Gazprom

ROSS Intelligence

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Social Science Research Network

TUI AG

Talktalk Telecom Group PLC

Tesla Inc.

The Conference Board Inc.

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The New York Times Co.

Thomson Reuters Corp.

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

Virgin Media Inc.

Walmart Inc.

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Weber Shandwick Worldwide Inc.

Willis Towers Watson PLC

iFinex Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Georgia Supreme Court

International Trade Commission

National Archives and Records Administration

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

National Park Service

Social Security Administration

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Army

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Kentucky

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Mint

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Railroad Retirement Board

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court