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Email: hlanger@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Antitrust
- Civil Litigation
- Class Actions
- Litigation
Bio
Howard Langer has taught Antitrust Law at the Law School since 2001. He is the managing partner of Langer, Grogan & Diver, P.C. He has specialized in complex commercial litigation, and particularly antitrust and consumer law, since graduating the Law School in 1977. He was lead counsel in In re Linerboard Antitrust Litigation, which, after establishing a key precedent in antitrust class action law by the Third Circuit, resulted in the largest antitrust settlement ever in that Circuit. In 2009, he was lead counsel in Faloney v. Wachovia Bank, which resulted in the largest consumer fraud recovery within the Circuit. Under the settlement, close to 700,000 victims of telemarketing fraud were sent $150 million, representing all of their damages, without even the need to file a claim. In 2009, Howard was also a visiting fellow at the Centre for Competition Law and Policy at Oxford.
Howard has specialized recently in the area of antitrust law relating to patents in the pharmaceutical industry and particularly the Hatch Waxman Act, which seeks to coordinate patent and drug regulatory law and has taught advanced seminars on those subjects at the Law School.
His firm has been dedicated to law in the public interest. In 2006, he and his colleagues were the recipients of the Equal Justice Award of Community Legal Services. The firm’s commercial/public interest model was featured in the Spring, 2007 issue of the Penn Law Journal. In 2010, the firm used a portion of its recovery in Faloney to establish a public interest fellowship at the Law School.
Representative Professional Positions
Managing Partner, Langer, Grogan & Diver, P.C.
1717 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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Education
- JD - University of Pennsylvania - '77
- MA - University of Toronto - '74
- BA - City College of New York - '73
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