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| No. of offices | 14 |
|---|---|
| No. of attorneys | 1000+[1] |
| Major practice areas | General corporate practice, litigation, regulatory |
| Date founded | 1946 (Arnold & Fortas) 1917 (Kaye Scholer) |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | arnoldporter |
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, doing business as Arnold & Porter, is an American multinational law firm.[2] It is a white-shoe firm and among the largest law firms in the world, both by revenue and by number of lawyers.[3][4]
History
The original firm was founded as Arnold & Fortas in 1946 by New Deal veterans Thurman Arnold, a former Yale Law School professor and U.S. Court of Appeals judge on the D.C. Circuit, and Abe Fortas, another former Yale Law School professor who later became a Supreme Court Justice.[5] In 1947, Paul A. Porter, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, joined the firm and it was renamed as Arnold, Fortas & Porter. In 1965, Abe Fortas' name was dropped from the firm's moniker after his ascension to the Supreme Court.
In November 2016, Arnold & Porter announced that it would be merging with New York-based firm Kaye Scholer (founded in 1917) to form Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, with approximately 1000 attorneys across ten domestic and four international offices. The merger took effect on January 1, 2017.[6]
In February 2018, The National Law Journal reported that the newly combined "firm has quietly reversed its post-merger branding efforts" and "scrubbed nearly all mention of 'Kaye Scholer' from its public image, changing its brand name, email addresses and web domain", while retaining the legal entity name in full.[7] In September 2020, Arnold & Porter announced that it will shut down its Frankfurt office by the end of March 2021.[8]
In 2022, Arnold & Porter was a founding member of the Legal Alliance for Reproductive Rights, a coalition of United States law firms offering free legal services to people seeking and providing abortions in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overruled Roe v. Wade.[9]
Pro bono work
In 2020, Arnold & Porter attorneys helped secure a $14 million judgment for 12 Black Lives Matter protesters who were victims of police brutality in Colorado.[10] The matter took 18 months to settle and required 14,000-plus lawyer hours.[11]
Attorneys with the firm assisted the family of Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper in obtaining the first posthumous Presidential pardon in U.S. history, and representated Ukrainian mail order bride Nataliya Fox against international marriage broker Encounters International in a landmark case that helped to establish the rights of such women.[12]
The firm is co-counsel with the DC Prisoners' Project of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, which represents prisoners at ADX Florence who allege deficiencies in psychiatric evaluation and care in Cunningham v. Federal Bureau of Prisons.[13]
Offices
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Notable people
- Clifford Alexander - U.S. Secretary of the Army, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and presidential advisor
- Thurman Arnold, founder — U.S. Court of Appeals Judge for the D.C. Circuit, Yale Law School Professor[14]
- William Baer — United States Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division[15]
- Naomi Biden — lawyer and granddaughter of U.S. President Joe Biden
- David Bonderman (born 1942) — businessman
- Eli Whitney Debevoise II — U.S. Executive Director of the World Bank
- Chris Dodd — former Democratic Senator, Connecticut[16]
- Brooksley Born — Chairwoman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Joseph A. Califano — U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Chairman of the National Center of Addiction and Substance Abuse
- Pamela Ki Mai Chen — United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
- Mary DeRosa — former Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration
- Allison H. Eid — Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- John Hart Ely — legal scholar and former dean of Stanford Law School
- Abe Fortas, founder — Supreme Court Justice, Yale Law School professor
- Merrick Garland — Attorney General of the United States, former U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judge for the D.C. Circuit, 2016 nominee to the Supreme Court to replace Antonin Scalia[17]
- Michael Gerrard — Columbia Law School professor, former partner in charge of the firm's New York City office
- Charles Halpern — Founder of the Center for Law and Social Policy, first Dean of City University of New York School of Law, Berkeley School of Law professor
- Kenneth I. Juster — Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration
- Irvin B. Nathan — Attorney General of the District of Columbia, General Counsel of the United States House of Representatives
- Matthew G. Olsen — Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and former General Counsel of the National Security Agency
- Paul A. Porter, founder — Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
- Margaret M. Morrow — United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
- Jack Quinn — former Clinton White House counsel and founder of Quinn Gillespie & Associates
- Sarah Bloom Raskin — member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Charles A. Reich — legal and social scholar
- William D. Rogers — President, American Society of International Law, Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
- Jonathan Schiller — co-founder and managing partner, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Ranking by IFLR1000, North America guide
In 2023, Arnold & Porter was ranked in 11 practice areas, which were:[18]
- Banking
- Capital Markets: Debt
- Capital Markets: Equity
- Capital Markets: High Yield
- Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitization
- Financial Services Regulatory
- M&A
- Private Equity
- Private Equity Funds
- Project Finance
- Restructuring and Insolvency
In addition, 25 attorneys were recognized as leading lawyers denoted as highly regarded, notable practitioners, or rising stars in the IFLR1000. They include:[18]
- Scott Berson - Capital Markets: Structured Finance & Securitization
- Lawton Camp - Capital Markets: Structured Finance & Securitization
- Emanuel Cherney - M&A; Private Equity
- Lowell Dashefsky - M&A
- Whitney Debevoise - Banking; Capital Markets: Debt; Capital Markets: Equity
- David Freeman - Financial Services Regulatory; Investment Funds
- Edmond Gabbay - Banking, Financial Services
- Sheryl Gittlitz - Banking, Financial Services
- Alan Glantz - Banking
- Jonathan Gleklen - M&A
- Michael Goodwin - Real Estate Acquisitions; Real Estate Finance
- Joel Greenberg - M&A
- Rory Greiss - M&A
- Greg Harrington - Capital Markets: Debt; Capital Markets: Equity, Banking
- Daniel Hartnett - Capital Markets: Structured Finance & Securitization
- Teresa Johnson - Capital Markets: Debt
- Henry Morriello - Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitization
- Carlos Pelaez - Capital Markets: Debt; Capital Markets: Equity; M&A
- Christopher Peterson - Capital Markets: Debt, Capital Markets: Equity, M&A
- Michelle Rowland - M&A
- Debra Schaumberger - Banking, Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitization
- Barbara Wootton - M&A
- Chris Willott - Banking
- Thomas Yadlon - M&A, Capital Markets: Debt, Capital Markets: Equity
- Betty Yan - M&A
References
- ↑ "Arnold & Porter - the Inside View".
- ↑ Arnold & Porter website
- ↑ "Arnold & Porter | Law.com".
- ↑ "Arnold & Porter | Company Profile".
- ↑ Chambers Student Guide 2011, Chambers and Partners.
- ↑ "Arnold & Porter and Kaye Scholer Announce Combination | News | Arnold & Porter". Arnold & Porter. Retrieved 2016-12-20.
- ↑ "Arnold & Porter Scrubs Kaye Scholer From Masthead, Website", by Ryan Lovelace, The National Law Journal, Law.com, February 02, 2018. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
- ↑ "Aus in Deutschland - Arnold & Porter schließt Frankfurter Buero"
- ↑ Lancaster, Alaina (June 1, 2022). "20 Law Firms Offer Pro Bono Legal Services to Defend Abortion Rights". Law.com. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- ↑ Kasakove, Sophie (2022-03-26). "Colorado Jury Awards $14 Million to Demonstrators Injured in George Floyd Protests". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
- ↑ "Lawyers use pro bono hours to step up fight for racial justice". Financial Times. 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
- ↑ "Mail-Order Misery: Imported Brides - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com". Archived from the original on 2006-06-14. Retrieved 2006-05-30.
- ↑ Mark Binelli (March 26, 2015). "Inside America's Toughest Federal Prison For years, conditions inside the United States' only federal supermax facility were largely a mystery. But a landmark lawsuit is finally revealing the harsh world within". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
- ↑ Olson, Elizabeth (2016-11-10). "Law Firm Arnold & Porter to Merge With Rival Kaye Scholer". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
- ↑ Dayen, David (May 17, 2018). "An Equifax and Facebook Lawyer Will Now Run the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection". The Intercept. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
- ↑ Munson, Emilie (2021-05-28). "Former Sen. Chris Dodd will work for Biden, but not as ambassador". Connecticut Post. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
- ↑ "Lightning Strikes Twice at Arnold & Porter with Merrick Garland Nomination". National Law Journal. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
- 1 2 "Arnold & Porter's Corporate and Financial Capabilities Recognized in 2023 IFLR1000 North America Guide | News". Arnold & Porter. Retrieved 2023-07-19.