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The timing couldn't have been worse for Covington & Burling's shiny new D.C. headquarters.

About 90 minutes before former FBI Director James Comey strode into the U.S. Senate hearing room Thursday, and nearly all of D.C. tuned into livestreams and TV broadcasts, a power surge put Washington's largest law firm in the dark.