Arnold & Porter LLP

Arnold & Porter LLP is an international law firm with an in-depth understanding of the changing business environment as it intersects with law, regulatory policy, and business. With more than 650 lawyers practicing in the US and abroad in over 25 areas of practice, the firm brings a valuable perspective and proven track record of experience in cross-border regulation, litigation, and transactional law. Arnold & Porter LLP maintains offices in Brussels, Denver, London, Los Angeles, New York, Northern Virginia, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. The firm is committed to the standard of client service established by its founders, who maintained that each client is entitled to receive and, indeed, should expect and demand legal services of the highest possible quality. The firm believes that the cornerstone of every client relationship is the partnership that exists between the client and outside counsel. Accordingly, for every matter it undertakes, Arnold & Porter LLP works closely with the client to fashion well-conceived strategies responsive to the client's objectives.

RUS and NTIA Streamline Broadband Grant Process
Maureen Jeffreys, Stephanie M. Phillipps, November 20, 2009
The US Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Services (RUS) and the US Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) recently announced that they planned to streamline the broadband grant and loan programs provided for in the American Recovery and...

House Passes Nationwide Menu Labeling Legislation
Sarah Esmaili, George Langendorf, Nancy G. Milburn, Trenton H. Norris, Peter L. Zimroth, November 18, 2009
Little noted in media coverage of the US House of Representatives' passage earlier this week of the Affordable Health Care for America Act was a provision requiring certain restaurants (including "similar retail food establishments") to list the amount of calories and other nutritional...

The Lacey Act and the World of Illegal Plant Products
Marcus A. Asner, Grace Pickering, November 18, 2009
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced that it once again will delay enforcement of the new Lacey Act declaration requirements for paper and wood pulp imported into the United States. Although the announced delay in enforcement is a welcome reprieve for companies struggling to...