Practice Areas

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP practices law in the following areas and works with its clients to provide the best possible legal solutions.

• Anti Corruption
• Antitrust
• Competition
• Appellate And Supreme Court
• Attorney Liability
• Bankruptcy And Restructuring
• Class Actions
• Compensation And Benefits
• Consumer Product Safety
• Consumer Protection
• And Advertising
• Corporate And Securities
• Corporate Governance
• Crisis Management And Planning
• Cuba
• Derivatives And Commodities
• Energy
• Environmental
• Finance
• Financial Services
• Government Contracts
• Intellectual Property
• International Arbitration
• International Trade
• Korea
• Labor And Employment
• Latin America
• Legislative And Public Policy
• Life Sciences And Healthcare Regulatory
• Litigation
• National Security
• Privacy And Data Security
• Private Client Services
• Product Liability Litigation
• Public International Law
• Real Estate
• Securities Enforcement
• Tax
• Telecommunications
• Internet
• And Media
• Transportation
• Trusts And Estates
• White Collar Defense

Hiring Criteria

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP follows the set of hiring criteria outlined below.

The firm looks for talented law and non-law graduates from diverse backgrounds, who share their commitment to excellence and who will contribute to their fair name and stature. Candidates applying to Arnold & Porter need to demonstrate a consistently high academic background. The firm expects candidates to have at least a 2.1 degree, AAB at A level or equivalent, and looks for well rounded individuals who can demonstrate their participation in a range of extracurricular activities and achievements.

Apart from academic excellence, the firm also looks into the candidate's professionally related activities and experiences of participation in law review, journal or clinical legal work. Candidates must also have writing and analytical skills and the ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment.

The firm offers challenging, first rate legal work in an environment that is both supportive and comfortable. Arnold & Porter LLP is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, veteran's status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Pro bono

Arnold & Porter LLP has one of the world's leading law firm pro bono programs. Doing pro bono work has been a core value of Arnold & Porter since the firm's founding in 1946. The firm does not cower away from representing unpopular clients as is evident from their efforts to help an Islamic group build a mosque in a New Jersey town despite bitter opposition.

Arnold & Porter is one of a small number of firms whose attorneys consistently average more than 100 hours per year of pro bono work. The firm and its lawyers have won dozens of awards in recent years, including the American Bar Association's prestigious "Pro Bono Publico" award.

Arnold & Porter has many landmark pro bono cases that have impacted communities positively. Its representation of mentally ill prisoners seeking appropriate treatment at the notorious "Angola Prison Farm" in Louisiana, and lawsuit against a "mail order brides" agency that brought a young woman to the United States and matched her with a physically abusive man-a case that led to federal legislation brings these agencies under government regulation.

It is not that the firm handles only high impact cases, its cases also involve the death penalty, political asylum, election reform, and international human rights, among many other areas. It has also represented many disadvantaged individuals, such as families facing eviction, women who have been the victims of brutal domestic violence, and people who have been wrongfully denied government benefits. The firm's work covers the full range of the firm's lawyers' skills, including transactional work and counseling for non-profits and non-governmental organizations.

The firm contributes 5 percent of its total billable work to pro bono work.

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Notable cases

• Throughout its history, the firm has handled many significant, high-profile matters for its clients. Some of the more recent significant cases include:
• Arnold & Porter LLP secured a significant victory on behalf of senior Israeli officials when on August 29, 2012, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissed claims of gender discrimination and purported crimes against humanity brought against several high-ranking Israeli officials, including a current justice on Israel's Supreme Court and two cabinet-level ministers.
• Arnold & Porter won an important victory in August 2012 when the Second Circuit affirmed the Southern District of New York's grant of a preliminary injunction prohibiting the retransmission of broadcast television programming over the Internet by a website called ivi.tv.
• Courts affirmation of the firm's statute of limitations win for Raytheon under the Contract Disputes Act set a new precedent in legal annals. In response to an April 2, 2012 decision in which the Court of Federal Claims denied a government claim against Raytheon Company in the amount of $25 million under the Contract Disputes Act statute of limitations, the government filed a motion for reconsideration.
• On June 21, the California Supreme Court issued a decision in a case of major importance to the banking industry: Parks v MBNA America Bank, N.A. The Court unanimously held that the claim brought by the plaintiff, Allan Parks, on behalf of a putative class of California credit card customers of MBNA is preempted by federal law.
• Washington, DC, June 6, 2012 -- Arnold & Porter LLP represented The Charles Schwab Corporation in the sale of $425 million of depositary shares, each representing a 1/40th ownership interest in a share of 6.00% Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B.
• Arnold & Porter LLP advised the Government of Kenya on a $600 million term loan facility arranged by Standard Chartered Bank, Citibank and The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited. The transaction, signed on 15 May 2012, was Kenya's first international syndicated loan.
• Arnold & Porter successfully defended Random House from a claim of copyright infringement against the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
• Amongst its major landmark triumphs in its history was working as counsel to Clarence Earl Gideon on the subject of award winning book Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis.
• The firm represented the survivors of the Buffalo Creek Flood, known as one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history. A book based on the case is compulsory reading in many law schools.
• It was the only noteworthy law firm to represent the victims of Joseph McCarthy and the "loyalty review boards" that ruined the careers of many loyal government employees. All three founders of the firm were so upset by the use of secret evidence that at one point the firm's lawyers were spending half of their time fighting these cases.
• The firm also successfully represented the government of Venezuela in its case against the United States' Clean Air Act on the grounds that the CAA violated World Trade Organization agreements.
• Arnold & Porter represented US Airways in its merger with America West. The firm assisted SBC Communications Inc in its acquisition of AT & T forming the new AT&T Inc.