The U.S. Department of Defense filed notices detailing the sale of $14.9 billion in arms and other equipment to countries it called "major" non-NATO allies and "strategic" partners, including Morocco, the Philippines and Egypt.
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DOD Unveils Nearly $15B In Arms Sales To 8 Nations

By Elaine BriseƱo

The U.S. Department of Defense filed notices detailing the sale of $14.9 billion in arms and other equipment to countries it called "major" non-NATO allies and "strategic" partners, including Morocco, the Philippines and Egypt.

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Panel OKs Sentence In Ex-Ky. Prosecutor Sex Bribe Scandal

By Emily Sawicki

A former Kentucky state prosecutor must serve 41 months behind bars after a Sixth Circuit panel upheld his conviction on wire fraud and government bribery charges tied to his alleged criminal scheme of assisting a criminal defendant in exchange for sexual favors and explicit photos.

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Roundup

Up Next At High Court: Pollution Lawsuits & Trans Athletes

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off the new year by hearing disputes over the constitutionality of state laws banning transgender female athletes from female-only sports and whether state or federal courts are the proper forum for lawsuits seeking to hold major oil companies accountable for harm caused by their oil production activities along Louisiana's coast. 

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LITIGATION

Mich. Bid For Behavioral Managed Care Contracts Can't Stand

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Michigan Court of Claims judge ruled the state health department's bid for Medicaid managed care contract proposals would unlawfully interfere with the duties of local governmental bodies that provide and coordinate behavioral health care.

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Alabama Steps Away From Appeal In ACF Water Dispute

By Carolina Bolado

Alabama on Thursday dropped its appeal at the Eleventh Circuit in a fight over water management of the Apalachicola watershed after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers agreed to changes proposed by Alabama and Georgia to end the decadeslong water feud.

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GAO

GAO Backs Air Force Denial Of Proposal With Excess Pages

By Elaine BriseƱo

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has denied a protest that a construction company lodged challenging its failure to secure a contract after the U.S. Air Force chose not to consider information on pages that exceeded the allowable limit.

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DEALS & CONTRACTS

Brief

Calif. Construction Co. Nabs $15B Air Force Contract

By Matthew Santoni

Brea, California-based Insight Pacific LLC has been awarded an open-ended, global construction contract with the U.S. Air Force worth up to $15 billion through 2035, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

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PEOPLE

Cozen O'Connor Lobbying Arm Lands Former Verizon Exec

By Jake Maher

Cozen O'Connor's government relations affiliate added Verizon's former head of lobbying for New Jersey as a principal in its Cherry Hill location this week.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Examining Privilege In Dual-Purpose Workplace Investigations

The Sixth Circuit's recent holding in FirstEnergy's bribery probe ruling that attorney-client privilege applied to a dual-purpose workplace investigation because its primary purpose was obtaining legal advice highlights the uncertainty companies face as federal circuit courts remain split on the appropriate test, say attorneys at Proskauer.

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Opinion

The Case For Emulating, Not Dividing, The Ninth Circuit

Champions for improved judicial administration should reject the unfounded criticisms driving recent Senate proposals to divide the Ninth Circuit and instead seek to replicate the court's unique strengths and successes, says Ninth Circuit Judge J. Clifford Wallace.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Law Firms Closed 2025 With Continued 'Appetite For Hiring'

By Tracey Read

The legal sector continued to defy hiring expectations in spite of uncertainty in the U.S. economy as 2025 drew to a close.

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NY Courts Open To Attys Using AI To Prep Filings

By Andrea Keckley

Lawyers should not be barred outright from using artificial intelligence tools to prepare court documents, a New York court system advisory committee said in its annual report on Thursday.

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New Trade Group Joins Litigation Finance Lobbying Fight

By Ryan Boysen

A new trade group for litigation funders has launched with the aim of enlisting personal injury and mass tort attorneys in a fight against proposed federal laws that it says could threaten the $16 billion litigation finance industry.

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Bruce Fein Unauthorized To Represent Maduro, Atty Says

By Rachel Rippetoe

When constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein entered an appearance as counsel for former Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro on Tuesday, it was without having ever spoken to the client, according to a Thursday filing by Maduro's attorney Barry Pollack seeking to remove Fein from the case.

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Goldberg Segalla Fights Ex-IP Co-Chair's $4M Arbitration Bid

By Theresa Schliep

An arbitration fight Goldberg Segalla LLP initiated against a former co-chair of its intellectual property group over proceeds from transferred cases spilled into New York state court, where the firm is seeking relief from his counterclaims that it shorted him nearly $4 million in compensation.

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Jones Day To Help Restore David Bowie's Old London Home

By Jamie Lennox

Jones Day's charitable foundation will help to restore the childhood home of musical icon David Bowie before it opens to the public in late 2027, the historical trust leading the project said Friday.

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NJ Justices Nix Atty Registration Fee Hike After Bar Pushback

By Rose Krebs

The New Jersey Supreme Court has rejected a request to raise the annual registration fee for attorneys after the state's bar association complained that a proposed $27 hike for certain attorneys, following prior year increases, was too much at a time when they and their firms face "significantly increasing operational costs."

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Gov't Can't Use NYT Article As Evidence In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

A Maryland federal judge on Friday barred prosecutors from pre-admitting Thomas Goldstein's statements in a New York Times article as evidence in the SCOTUSblog co-founder's tax fraud trial, but she left open the possibility for the government to call either Jeffrey Toobin, the article's author, or a Times fact-checker, as a witness.

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Calif. Wage Suit Settles Months After Atty Admits To AI Mishap

By Emily Sawicki

A proposed wage and hour class action that drew the legal world's attention in November after the plaintiff's counsel admitted to using a half-dozen artificial intelligence tools to prepare a botched motion has now ended, with a Northern California federal judge granting a joint dismissal following a settlement agreement.

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Comey, James Fight DOJ Push To Combine Dismissal Appeals

By Jack Karp

Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James are pushing back against federal prosecutors' effort to consolidate their currently separate appeals of the beleaguered prosecutions against the pair at the Fourth Circuit.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen a collapsed investment firm revive a $15 million dispute with a hedge fund, major Hollywood studios bring an IP claim against the U.K.'s largest internet providers over illegal streaming, and the Department of Health and Social Care sue the law firm and barrister representing it in a pharma competition damages case.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

In technology, the increasing use of artificial intelligence by legal departments will be a major concern for general counsel seeking to control costs in the New Year. And in labor matters, the National Labor Relations Board has a new general counsel along with a quorum and is ready to start deciding cases again.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a ruling in which Apple beat claims it illegally blocked third-party access to Apple Watch medical data so it could create rival software.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Addleshaw Goddard

Baker Botts

Beale & Co. Solicitors

Block & Leviton

Brodies LLP

Capital Law Ltd.

Capsticks Solicitors LLP

Carmichael Ellis

Cleary Gottlieb

Clement & Murphy

Clifford Chance

Clyde & Co

Cohen Milstein

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Crowell & Moring

DAC Beachcroft

DWF LLP

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

Dentons

Devlin Law Firm PC

FBT Gibbons

Fellows LaBriola

Fox Rothschild

Gentry Locke

Gibson Dunn

Goldberg Kohn

Goldberg Segalla

Greenberg Traurig

Hach & Rose

Hach Rose Schirripa

Harris St. Laurent

Hickman & Rose

Hogan Lovells

Irwin Mitchell

Jones Day

Kazmarek Mowrey

Kennedys Law LLP

Keoghs LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Knight Law Group

Kropf Moseley

Latham & Watkins

Lester Aldridge

Lewis Silkin

Lieff Cabraser

Linklaters LLP

Lowell & Associates

Mandelbaum Barrett

Manning Gross

Maynard Nexsen

McGuireWoods

Miller Johnson Snell

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

Orrick Herrington

Peters & Peters Solicitors

Pinsent Masons

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Radcliffes LeBrasseur

Schofield Sweeney

Schwartz White

Secrest Wardle

Setfords Solicitors

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Simmons & Simmons

Skadden Arps

Smith Gambrell

Squire Patton

TLT LLP

Taft Stettinius

Travers Smith

Troutman

Varnum LLP

Walker Morris LLP

Ward Hadaway

Watson Farley

Webster Szanyi

Weightmans LLP

Wiggin LLP

Wilson Sonsini

Winston & Strawn

Wirtz Law APC

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AECOM

Alivecor Inc.

Alpharma Inc.

American Arbitration Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Enterprise Institute

Appian Corp.

Apple Inc.

Association of American Universities Inc.

Bank of America Corp.

Block Inc.

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc.

Bouygues

Cash App

Chevron Corp.

Cogentrix Energy Power Management LLC

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

Consolidated Edison Inc.

Daiwa Securities Group Inc.

EDF Energy PLC

Earthjustice

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Fever Labs Inc.

FirstEnergy Corp.

Ford Motor Co.

Google LLC

Hatch Henderson Fivel LLC

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

International Legal Finance Association

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Juniper Networks Inc.

KBR Inc.

KPMG International

LinkedIn Corp.

Lloyd's America Inc.

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

NHK Spring

National Wildlife Federation

Netflix Inc.

New Jersey State Bar Association

New Jersey Transit Corp.

New York University

NortonLifeLock Inc.

Novartis AG

Paramount Pictures Corp.

Pegasystems Inc.

Public Strategies Inc.

Reddit Inc.

Robinhood Markets Inc.

Sky PLC

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

Stifel Financial Corp.

Tesla Inc.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The New York Times Co.

The Walt Disney Co.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

United Therapeutics Corp.

Verizon Communications Inc.

Virgin Media Inc.

Vistra Corp.

Vuori Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

WikiLeaks

Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Labor Statistics

California Supreme Court

Companies House

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Georgia Attorney General's Office

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

NATO

National Labor Relations Board

National Security Agency

New Jersey Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Secretary of State for Health and Others

State of Michigan

Transport for London

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Army

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

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

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

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio