& Porter successfully defended Random House from a claim of copyright infringement against The Da Vinci Code, written by Dan Brown. The firm also served as outside counsel to the Independent Review Committee during its examination of Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lawrence Small's management. The firm was also counsel to Philip Morris for its mass tort litigation of the 1990s; WorldCom executive Scott Sullivan; Martha Stewart; and CBS, in its litigation against Howard Stern. The firm 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. Arnold & Porter also assisted SBC Communications Inc. in its acquisition of AT&T Corp., forming the new AT&T Inc. It is also defending the South Korean government in its case against Lone Star Funds. The Korean law firm 법무법인(유한) 태평양(Bae, Kim & Lee LLC) is working with Arnold &Porter on the case. 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. The matter took 18-months to settle and required 14,000-plus lawyer hours. Attorneys with the firm assisted the family of Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper in obtaining the first posthumous Presidential pardon in U.S. history, and representation of 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. 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. Offices Amsterdam, the Netherlands Brussels, Belgium Chicago, Illinois Denver, Colorado London, United Kingdom Los Angeles, California Houston, Texas Newark, New Jersey New York, New York Palo Alto, California San Francisco, California Seoul, South Korea Shanghai, China Washington, D.C. Notable alumni Thurman Arnold, founder — U.S. Court of Appeals Judge for the D.C. Circuit, Yale Law School Professor William Baer — United States Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division Chris Dodd — former Democratic Senator, Connecticut 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