HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office said Wednesday that it settled a dispute with a Washington, D.C., law firm over its bill for reviewing explicit and objectionable e-mails on state-owned computers.

The agency will pay an additional $1.4 million to BuckleySandler, about $400,000 less than it said the firm had sought. That’s on top of about $380,000 already paid to BuckleySandler.

Attorney General Bruce Beemer said the deal will help in the transition to a new attorney general, Josh Shapiro. Shapiro, a Democrat elected in November, will be sworn in next week in Harrisburg.

Shapiro’s communications director, Joe Grace, said that they were “encouraged” by the settlement and that residents are “ready for their top lawyer to be focused on the pressing issues facing their communities.”

A team from Buckley-Sandler, led by former Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler, reviewed more than 6.4 million documents and e-mails from a seven-year period that ended in 2015.

The report released in November flagged 38 people as high-volume senders of inappropriate e-mails, including 13 senior government officials or judges.