Anthropic Says Defense Dept. Smeared It Over AI Red Lines

By Jared Foretek

Potential splits emerged Tuesday between D.C. Circuit judges questioning the legality of the U.S. Department of Defense's move to bar Anthropic from government contracting, with the AI company claiming it had been targeted and smeared as a national security threat for nothing more than a contract dispute.

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KBR Argues CEO Said Nothing False Before DOD Program Ax

By Madeline Lyskawa

Engineering firm KBR Inc. has urged a Texas federal judge to toss a proposed class action alleging the company misled investors about a government partnership to help relocate military personnel, saying its CEO made no false statements before the deal's termination.

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DC Urges Panel To Uphold National Guard Injunction

By Madeline Lyskawa

The District of Columbia said neither federal law nor the D.C. Code authorizes the president's deployment of the D.C. National Guard for law-enforcement activities in the district, urging the D.C. Circuit to uphold an injunction barring the deployment.

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Chinese Testing Lab Urges FCC Caution On 'Reciprocal' Rule

By Christopher Cole

A Chinese equipment testing lab says the Federal Communications Commission needs to tread carefully in crafting new rules demanding "reciprocal" agreements to test communications gear, or risk disrupting U.S. supply chains.

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Consulting Co. Execs Acquitted In Navy Admiral Bribery Case

By Hailey Konnath

A D.C. federal jury handed prosecutors a loss on Monday, finding that a pair of consulting company executives were not guilty of bribing a top U.S. Navy admiral with a lucrative post-retirement job in exchange for government contracts.

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Colo. Co. Seeks More Boeing Discovery In NASA IP Fight

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado aerospace company claimed The Boeing Co. has failed to disclose numerous witnesses and records through discovery in the company's lawsuit accusing Boeing of stealing its patented technology to use on NASA's Artemis moon exploration program, according to a motion to compel filed in Washington federal court Monday.

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General Dynamics Seeks Pause In No-Poach High Court Bid

By Elaine Briseño

General Dynamics Corp. asked the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily pause its petition after the plaintiffs dismissed the company from their suit that accused shipbuilders of conspiring to suppress wages and reached settlements with the remaining defendants.

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Intel Says Texas Law Doesn't Support Russian Missile Claims

By Spencer Brewer

Intel and other semiconductor manufacturers asked a Texas federal judge to throw out claims that they negligently sold products the Russian government used to build missiles that killed Ukrainian civilians, saying Tuesday that the civilians' claims have no basis in Texas law.

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GAO Backs NASA In Protest Over IT Contract Line Items

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Government Accountability Office said NASA was justified in terminating a company from competition to provide agency-wide IT services, finding the company provided conflicting information over its outside designated providers, thereby failing to satisfy contract line item requirements.

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GAO Denies Protest Of Alleged Sole-Source IRS Procurement

By Elaine Briseño

The U.S. Government Accountability Office said the IRS did not unreasonably restrict competition in its search for a company to help the agency migrate to a new platform, finding the listed requirements were justified.

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Contractor Can't Seek $24M For Job It Agreed To Do 'Gratis'

By Elaine Briseño

The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals rejected a workforce development company's efforts to recoup $24 million it voluntarily spent, even after being denied a formal contract, supporting its website that helped military reservists find civilian jobs.

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AI Regulatory Gaps May Fuel FCA Enforcement Action

The intersection of artificial intelligence and False Claims Act enforcement presents legal risk for government contractors across several industries, particularly in the absence of a federal regulatory framework explicitly governing its development and use, say attorneys at O’Melveny.

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Bid Protest Spotlight: Discriminators, Fairness, Experience

In this month's bid protest roundup, Victoria Angle at MoFo surveys three recent decisions from the Government Accountability Office that show performance benchmarks may serve as qualitative discriminators, solicitation amendments and timelines must allow for fair competition, and past performance submissions must strictly comply with proposal requests.

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Becoming The Biz-Savvy GC That Portfolio Companies Need

Candidates for general counsel roles at private equity-backed portfolio companies should prioritize proving their sector-specific experience, commercial judgment and ease with uncertainty — and attorneys hoping to be candidates in five to 10 years should start working on those skills now, says Dimitri Mastrocola at Major Lindsey.

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The 2026 Summer Associates Survey

By Daniela Porat

Law students hoping to land summer associate roles at their dream firms have to start applying earlier and earlier, forcing students to strike a difficult balance between focusing on academics and completing applications. Find out how students navigated the ever-competitive process and which firms topped students’ wish lists in the latest survey from Law360 Pulse.

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2nd Circ. Nixes $900M Suit Against Boies Schiller, Dentons

By Caroline Simson

The Second Circuit Tuesday refused to revive a racketeering lawsuit seeking up to $900 million in damages from Dentons and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, in which the BigLaw firms were accused of misleading a former client in relation to a deal, and later arbitration, involving Senegal's state-owned energy company.

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She Has A Point: Sheppard's Michelle Replogle

By Theresa Schliep

When Michelle Replogle of Sheppard and Nitika Gupta Fiorella of Fish & Richardson PC were opponents in a patent case, Fiorella said, Replogle stood out for her expertise and respect, which she showed to everyone regardless of their experience or whom they represented in the litigation.

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$1.8B IRS Deal Fund 'Not Slush Fund,' Blanche Tells Senators

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche argued before a Senate committee on Tuesday that the nearly $1.8 billion settlement fund announced on Monday as part of the president's settlement with the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax documents "is not a slush fund."

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Quinn Emanuel Owes More Sanctions In Guardant Fight

By Lauren Berg

Quinn Emanuel and its team representing medical testing company Natera will shoulder further sanctions on top of the $3 million already imposed over the firm's misrepresentations concerning an expert witness in Guardant Health's false advertising case, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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Nelson Mullins Partner Confirmed To SC Federal Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 52-38 on Tuesday to confirm Sheria Clarke, a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, as a judge for the District of South Carolina.

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Brother May Pay Ex-BigLaw Atty's Legal Fees In Insider Case

By Julie Manganis

A former BigLaw associate charged with orchestrating a sweeping insider trading scheme can have his legal expenses covered by his co-defendant brother if the two waive potential conflicts, a Massachusetts federal magistrate judge said Tuesday.

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Seeborg's Term As Calif. Northern District Chief Judge To End

By Bonnie Eslinger

Chief District Judge Richard Seeborg is expected to conclude his time as the top judge for the Northern District of California in July, according to a spokesperson for the judiciary, to be succeeded by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.

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Ex-Trader Says Crypto Co.'s Bid For Sanctions Is 'Unfounded'

By Hayley Fowler

A former trader said a cryptocurrency company is using an "unfounded" characterization of his deposition conduct to seek sanctions and lend credence to facts it hasn't otherwise been able to prove in its suit accusing him of usurping $8.1 million in digital assets.

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