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January 23, 2025
BakerHostetler Adds Co-Leader For New Security Task Force
A career prosecutor who spent the past decade as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York has joined BakerHostetler to colead the firm's new national security investigations and litigation task force, according to a Thursday announcement.
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January 22, 2025
GAO Says Army Corps Reasonably Rejected Contractor's Bid
The Government Accountability Office has rejected a Georgia-based construction contractor's challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' denial of its building repair contract proposal, saying the agency reasonably deemed the contractor's project labor agreement to be insufficient.
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January 22, 2025
$1.3B India Telecom Award Can't Be Enforced, Justices Told
A commercial division of India's space agency is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a Ninth Circuit ruling refusing to enforce a $1.3 billion arbitral award issued to an Indian satellite communications company, arguing that the circuit court's determination of technical jurisdictional issues was correct.
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January 22, 2025
Ga. Tech Says Gov't Hasn't Shown Cybersecurity False Claims
The Georgia Institute of Technology has pushed for dismissal of a False Claims Act suit accusing it of knowingly violating U.S. Department of Defense cybersecurity standards, saying the government hadn't adequately explained how those rules apply to the university.
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January 22, 2025
Space Explorer Voyager Technologies Confidentially Files IPO
Defense and space exploration company Voyager Technologies Inc. said Wednesday it has confidentially filed plans for an initial public offering, marking the second company from the industry to join the IPO pipeline this week and potentially benefiting from increased government funding for space travel.
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January 22, 2025
FCC's New Chair Names Agency Leaders, Staff
The new Republican head of the Federal Communications Commission has put together his team and named career officials to lead key branches of the agency.
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January 22, 2025
Paul Weiss Guides Ares On $304M Form Technologies Buy
Paul Weiss is guiding an Ares Management-led group on the $304 million purchase of a majority of Form Technologies Inc.'s common equity, in a transaction that allows Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised Form to "substantially deleverage" its balance sheet, Form said Wednesday.
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January 22, 2025
Menendez Loses 2nd Bid For New Trial As Sentencing Nears
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday denied former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's latest motion for a new corruption trial a week before his sentencing, rejecting his claim that the jury could have been swayed by improperly redacted exhibits that were loaded onto a computer containing the evidence in the case.
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January 22, 2025
White House Shutters DEI Offices, Puts Workers On Leave
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management told federal agencies to close offices focused on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives by Wednesday evening and lay off staffers by Jan. 31, part of President Donald Trump's larger efforts to combat workplace diversity programs.
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January 21, 2025
Navy, Tetra Tech Strike $97M Deal Over Navy Cleanup Work
The U.S. Navy and a Tetra Tech unit have reached two settlements amounting to $97 million, resolving claims the subsidiary billed the Navy for radiation remediation services at a former Navy shipyard in San Francisco that it did not actually perform.
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January 21, 2025
Air Force Escapes Black Worker's Race, Age Bias Suit
A Georgia federal judge has ruled that a Black man who sued the U.S. Air Force for discrimination failed to show that his age or race played any role in its decision to award a job promotion to a younger white colleague.
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January 21, 2025
FCC Floats Rules For Emerging Flight Technologies
The Federal Communications Commission wants to open the 450 megahertz band up to drones and manned aircraft that land and take off vertically and has proposed rules that will "facilitate the robust use of the band at a range of altitudes."
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January 21, 2025
EPA Tells DC Circ. Its PFAS Superfund Rule Is On Solid Ground
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has claimed that it is perfectly within its authority to label two forever chemicals as "hazardous substances" under the federal Superfund law, urging the D.C. Circuit to toss an industry group's challenge to its designation powers.
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January 21, 2025
Brendan Carr Officially Takes Over As FCC Chair
Brendan Carr took over as chair of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday, restoring Republican control of the agency as President Donald Trump kicked off his second term.
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January 21, 2025
CNN Inks Post-Verdict Deal In Contractor's Defamation Suit
CNN settled a defamation lawsuit just hours after a Florida jury awarded $5 million in compensatory damages to a U.S. Navy veteran turned private defense contractor who sued the network for defamation over a report on the evacuation of Afghans in 2021.
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January 21, 2025
New Tariff Moves Still In Flux As Trump Retakes Office
President Donald Trump's first day in office did not yield the range of new tariffs he promised, though the president stressed that several actions are still under discussion, including sanctions against China regarding control of the popular social network TikTok.
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January 21, 2025
Holland & Knight Reps Redwire On $925M Edge Buy
Holland & Knight LLP is guiding space infrastructure company Redwire Corp. on a new agreement to acquire Edge Autonomy for $925 million, expanding Redwire's portfolio to include Edge's combat-tested uncrewed aircraft and drones.
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January 21, 2025
Trump Orders Federal Workers Back To Office
On his first day back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump ordered federal workers back to theirs.
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January 20, 2025
Trump's Day 1 Immigration Actions: What You Need To Know
President Donald Trump issued a flurry of immigration-related executive orders Monday, declaring a state of emergency on the southern U.S. border, limiting birthright citizenship and closing the border entirely to new asylum-seekers.
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January 20, 2025
Trump Delays TikTok Ban To Hammer Out Deal
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday that will keep TikTok from going dark in the U.S. while he works to broker a deal that would override the legislative mandate for the popular social media app to cut ties with its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban.
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January 20, 2025
Trump Clears Way For Ban on Transgender Military Service
President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order clearing the way to bring back a ban on transgender people serving openly in the military.
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January 17, 2025
Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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January 17, 2025
Law360 Names Firms Of The Year
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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January 20, 2025
Trump, Musk Sued By Nonprofits Over DOGE Transparency
Public Citizen and other nonprofits hit the Trump administration with multiple lawsuits seeking to shut down the new Department of Government Efficiency in D.C. federal court Monday, alleging the Elon Musk-led advisory committee targeting government waste lacks requisite transparency guardrails to prevent DOGE from solely advancing private interests.
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January 17, 2025
Immigrant Military Members OK To Ax Time-In-Service Appeal
Immigrant members of the military challenging a since-rescinded U.S. Department of Defense requirement to serve for one year before becoming eligible for citizenship told the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that they would not oppose the dismissal of the agency's appeal on its terms.
Expert Analysis
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Inside The Appeals Board's 2024 Report To Congress
An in-depth examination of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals’ annual report reveals a continuing decline in new cases, motions and hearings, a trend that may correspond with the increased use of alternative dispute resolution, and expedited or accelerated proceedings, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.
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How Boards And Officers Should Prep For New Trump Admin
In anticipation of President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs and mass deportation campaign, company officers and board members should pursue proactive, comprehensive contingency planning to not only advance the best interests of the companies they serve, but to also properly exercise their fiduciary duty of care, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.
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Implementing Human Rights Due Diligence
The Bureau of Industry and Security’s recent removal of a Canadian surveillance provider from its export blacklist, after just eight months, illustrates the importance of integrating human rights due diligence into the vetting process by asking a few targeted questions, say attorneys at Cravath.
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DC Circ. Decision Opens Door To NEPA Regulation Litigation
A recent D.C. Circuit decision in Marin Audubon Society v. Federal Aviation Administration could open the door to more litigation over the White House Council on Environmental Quality's National Environmental Policy Act regulations, and could affect how many agencies conduct and interpret environmental assessments, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.
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How CFIUS' Updated Framework Affects Global Investors
The recent change to the monitoring and enforcement regulations governing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States will broaden administrative practices around nonnotified transaction investigations, increase the scope of information demands from the committee and accelerate its ability to impose mitigation on parties, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Contract Disputes Recap: Perils Of Perfunctory Interpretation
Attorneys at Seyfarth examine three recent decisions in which the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals and the Federal Circuit ruthlessly dismantled arguments that rely on superficial understandings of different contract terms.
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Series
Flying Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Achieving my childhood dream of flying airplanes made me a better lawyer — and a better person — because it taught me I can conquer difficult goals when I leave my comfort zone, focus on the demands of the moment and commit to honing my skills, says Ivy Cadle at Baker Donelson.
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Key Points From New Maritime Oil Price Cap Advisory
The Price Cap Coalition's updated advisory regarding the maritime oil industry's compliance with the Russian oil price cap highlights the role of governmental authorities, additional areas warranting due diligence and the need for training programs, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.
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Trump Patent Policy May Be Headed In Unexpected Direction
While commentators have assumed that the patent policy of President-elect Donald Trump's second administration will largely mirror the pro-patent policy of his first, these predictions fail to take into account the likely oversized influence of Elon Musk, says Jorge Contreras at the University of Utah.
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Takeaways From Final Regulations For China Investment Ban
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s final rule banning U.S. investment in emerging Chinese technology clarifies some key requirements, includes additional exceptions for covered transactions and attempts to address concerns that the rule will put U.S. businesses at a competitive disadvantage, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Compliance Considerations Of DOJ Data Security Rule
Under the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed rule aiming to prevent certain countries' access to bulk U.S. sensitive personal data, companies must ensure their vendor, employment and investment agreements meet strict new data security requirements — or determine whether such contracts are worth the cost of compliance, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.
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Circus Arts Make Me A Better Lawyer
Performing circus arts has strengthened my ability to be more thoughtful, confident and grounded, all of which has enhanced my legal practice and allowed me to serve clients in a more meaningful way, says Bailey McGowan at Stinson.
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3 Ways To Train Junior Lawyers In 30 Minutes Or Less
Today’s junior lawyers are experiencing a skills gap due to pandemic-era disruptions, but firms can help bring them up to speed by offering high-impact skill building content in bite-sized, interactive training sessions, say Stacey Schwartz at Katten, Diane Costigan at Winston & Strawn and Lauren Tierney at Freshfields.
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Bid Protest Spotlight: Unclear Criteria, Data Rights, Conflicts
Liam Bowers at MoFo examines three recent decisions from the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims examining the use of unstated evaluation criteria, an agency's investigation of its own data rights and unequal access to information about an organizational conflict of interest.
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The Bar Needs More Clarity On The Discovery Objection Rule
Almost 10 years after Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34 was amended, attorneys still seem confused about what they should include in objections to discovery requests, and until the rules committee provides additional clarity, practitioners must beware the steep costs of noncompliance, says Tristan Ellis at Shanies Law Office.