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Practice/Industry Group Overview
Since its founding in 1946, Arnold & Porter LLP has achieved a national reputation for excellence in representing clients before Congress, federal agencies and state and local governments. Our founders employed their public service experience and exceptional legal skills to achieve clients' public policy objectives. This tradition continues at the firm and is increasingly important, as policy issues become more complex, knowledge-driven, and inextricably intertwined with challenges clients face in the courtroom, the media, and the marketplace.
The hallmark of Arnold & Porter's public policy practice is our focus on clients with complex legal and public policy challenges. Our clients typically face a myriad of concerns—threatened or actual litigation in multiple venues, adverse legislative or regulatory activity at the national or local level, and intense media scrutiny. Our seasoned public policy team achieves results because we offer clients:
- Experience. Our firm has represented clients on high-profile and often precedent-setting policy matters for over 50 years. Many of our attorneys have served in high-level government positions.
- Judgment. The complex "hot button" issues we tackle require deft political handling and sensitivity to the impact that policy battles have in other areas, such as litigation risk management and business reputation.
- Legal Excellence. We employ rigorous legal analysis, innovative legal and strategic thinking, and careful fact-finding in addressing public policy challenges.
- A Deep Bench. The public policy team regularly draws upon the substantive experience of lawyers throughout the firm.
- Expertise in Government Affairs Compliance and Oversight Investigations. We counsel clients on the rules regarding campaign activity, lobbying law, and political contributions, so clients can fully and lawfully engage in the political process. We also represent them before the bodies that enforce these rules, as well as in investigations before Congressional oversight committees.
Arnold & Porter's public policy activities span a broad range of substantive areas. In addition, because we are able to call upon experts in the firm's industry and professional practice areas, we can provide assistance in most issue areas.
At the Forefront of the Major Public Policy Debates of Our Time
The firm has been involved in many of the major public policy debates in Congress, including:
- Energy and climate change legislation;
- The financial bailout legislation;
- The economic stimulus legislation;
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act;
- Product liability and class action reform proposals;
- The Patriot Act of 2001;
- Homeland Security legislation and related issues, such as bioterrorism defense;
- Money laundering legislation;
- The Grassley/Baucus tax shelter abuse proposals;
- The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act;
- Medicare/Medicaid reform;
- Food and drug regulation reform, such as the Hatch-Waxman Act;
- Prescription drug coverage;
- Pension reform proposals;
- US policy on the export of encryption technology;
- Defense base closing issues;
- The National Securities Markets Improvement Act;
- Securities reform legislation;
- US military and economic aid to foreign sovereigns; and
- National education policy.
We also have represented numerous clients before Congressional oversight committees, investigating:
- Waste, fraud, and abuse in government contracting;
- Accounting and financial reporting scandals, including those related to the Enron investigation;
- Securities fraud allegations; and
- "Whitewater" and other political investigations.
In an environment in which clients face multiple challenges on various fronts, it is critical to be serviced by an experienced team equipped to handle all of the issues in an integrated and sophisticated fashion. The Arnold & Porter public policy team is committed to an innovative, proactive, and multidisciplinary approach to solving whatever problems, in whatever forum, a client faces.
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