Wake Up Call: Microsoft Splits With Covington on Lobbying Work

In today’s column, a New York federal judge awarded $2.6 million in attorney fees to a Boies Schiller Flexner client in an international arbitration case; Michigan’s attorney general said she expects criminal charges to result from her office’s investigation of efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election; and two top New York real estate firms merged.

• Leading off, Microsoft Corp. has ended a 23-year lobbying relationship with Covington & Burling in which the law firm has taken in over $10 million in fees. The separation came soon after Muftiah McCartin, who as co-chair of Covington’s public policy practice led ...