Boies, Schiller & Flexner partner Hamish Hume was named Litigator of the Week by American Lawyer’s Litigation Daily, after obtaining a ruling in favor of his client Palantir Technologies in a suit against the U.S. Army.
Hamish argued in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that the Army must consider Palantir's commercial product for a proposed $206 million procurement of a new intelligence system, and cannot issue a solicitation for a purely developmental item without first looking more closely at the availability of already-developed commercial products, such as that offered by Palantir. Judge Marian Horn agreed and issued an injunction in favor of Palantir on October 31.
Hamish and his colleagues--Joshua Riley, Samuel Kaplan, Stacey Grigsby, Jon Knight, Ross McSweeney and Meryl Governski --had to cut through technical jargon and stick to clear definitions, Litigation Daily wrote, in a case that was the first test of the 1994 Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act.