Langer, Robert M.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Robert M. Langer is a partner in the firm's Litigation Department and head of the firm's Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice Group. Mr. Langer is involved in all aspects of antitrust, consumer protection and trade regulation counseling and litigation, representing clients in both federal and state courts, and before the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, as well as offices of state attorneys general throughout the United States.

Before joining Wiggin and Dana in 1994, Mr. Langer was the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust and Consumer Protection Department of the Office of the Connecticut Attorney General, where for more than twenty years he litigated numerous antitrust and consumer matters in both federal and state trial and appellate courts.

A graduate of Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (A.B.) and the University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D.), Mr. Langer was admitted to practice in 1973.

Mr. Langer served as Chair of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) Multistate Antitrust Task Force from 1990 to 1992, and in that capacity served as the NAAG Representative to the Council of the Section of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association (ABA).

Mr. Langer currently serves as Chair of the Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Project and as a member of the Advisory Board on Section Reserves of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law. He previously served as the Section's Finance Officer, a member of the Council, Chair of the Consumer Protection Committee, Co-Chair of the Legislation Committee, Co-Chair of the Federal and State Legislative Policy Task Force, Vice-Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Committee and Chair of the State Antitrust Enforcement Committee. He has also contributed to numerous Section publications, including several editions of Antitrust Law Developments, every edition of State Antitrust Practice and Statutes and most recently, as a member of the Editorial Board of Consumer Protection Law Developments, editing significant portions of the over 200 page state law chapter of this comprehensive treatise on state, federal and international consumer protection law..

Since 1979, Mr. Langer has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Business Administration, MBA Program, where he teaches constitutional, antitrust and trade regulation law.

Mr. Langer is a member of both the Bureau of National Affairs Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report Advisory Board and the Board of Editors of the Matthew Bender Antitrust Report. He is the past Co-Chair of the Antitrust & Trade Regulation Committee of WESFACCA (formerly the Corporate Bar Association of Westchester and Fairfield).

Mr. Langer lectures and writes regularly on antitrust, consumer protection, and health care topics. Mr. Langer is the co-author of a treatise, entitled Unfair Trade Practices, published by Thomson West in 2003 as Volume 12 of its Connecticut Practice Series. He has also written several Op-ed articles on a variety of legal issues for publications such as The New York Times and The Hartford Courant and has been the subject of numerous interviews for publications such as FTC: WATCH, International Merger Law and the ABA's Antitrust magazine.

In 1991, Mr. Langer received the Marvin Award from NAAG in recognition of his leadership, expertise and achievement in advancing the goals of that organization. In 1994, Mr. Langer was voted by the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Bar Foundation to become a Charter Fellow of the James W. Cooper Fellows Program and served as Chair of the Fellows Program from 2000-2006. He served from 1998-2000 as Chair of the Fellows Advisory Research Committee. In 1995, Mr. Langer received an award for outstanding service to businesses and consumers from the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection for his work in the development of the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act. In 2000, Mr. Langer was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and is listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America in antitrust law (for more about the standards for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, please click here).

Areas of Practice

• Antitrust and Trade Regulation
• Franchise and Distribution
• Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Connecticut, 1973
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. District Court District of Connecticut

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Section of Antitrust Law, American Bar Association (Finance Officer)
• American Bar Foundation (Fellow)
• Advisory Board, BNA Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report (Member)
• Board of Editors, Matthew Bender Antitrust Report (Member)
• Executive Committee, Antitrust & Trade Regulation Section, connecticut Bar Association (Member)
• American Health Lawyers Association

Honors and Awards

• Marvin Award from NAAG, 1991 - Present

Classes and Seminars

• Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut School of Business Administration, MBA Program, 1979 - Present
• 54th Antitrust Law Spring Meeting, American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law, Washington DC, 2006 - Present
• 2005 Annual National Lawyers Convention, The Federalist Society, Washington, DC, 2005 - Present
• Immunities and Exemptions: The State Action Doctrine, Antitrust Modernization Commission, Washington, DC, 2005 - Present
• NAAG Multistate Antitrust Task Force Seminar, National Association of Attorneys General, Denver, CO, 2005 - Present
• Product Liability Advisory Council 2004 Fall Conference, Product Liability Advisory Council, Williamsburg, VA, 2004 - Present
• Antitrust Back To Basics Annual Program, WESFACCA, Purchase, NY, 2004 - Present
• 52nd Annual Antitrust Spring Meeting, American Bar Association, Washington, D.C., 2004 - Present
• 2003 ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting, American Bar Association, Washington, DC, 2003 - Present
• The 2002 Antitrust Conference: Antitrust Issues in Today's Economy, The Conference Board, New York, New York, 2002 - Present

Past Employment Positions

• State of Connecticut, Assistant Attorney General, 1973 - 1974
• Antitrust and Consumer Protection, Department Head, 1980 - Present
• National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) Multistate Antitrust Task Force, Chair, 1990 - 1992
• University of Connecticut School of Business Administration, MBA Program, Adjunct Professor, 1979 - Present

Education

• University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut, 1973
  J.D.
• Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1970
  A.B.

Published Works

• "The Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act," (Co-Author), 54 Conn. B.J. 388, 1980
• "Antitrust Review of Mergers by State Attorneys General, The New Cops on the Beat", 67 Conn. B.J. 1, 1993
• The Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act 2v, Connecticut Law Tribune, 1994
• "A Practioner's Guide to State Antitrust Health Care Issues," Antitrust, ABA, Fall, 1995
• "Should the Antitrust Division, the FTC and State Attorneys General Formerly Allocate the Market for Antitrust Enforcement?" (Matthew Bender), Antitrust Report, October, 1998
• 60 Minutes With Robert M. Langer, Assistant Attorney General and Chair, NAAG Multistate Antitrust Task Force, 60 Antitrust Law Journal 197, 1991
• 60 Minutes With Robert M. Langer, Assistant Attorney General and Chair, NAAG Multistate Antitrust Task Force, 61 Antitrust Law Journal 211, 1992
• Matthew Bender Antitrust Report (Member, Board of Editors) 1992-Present
• The Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (Co-Author), 54 Connecticut Bar Journal 388, 1980
• A Practioner's Guide to State Antitrust Health Care Issues, Antitrust (ABA), Fall, 1995
• Should the Antitrust Division, the FTC and State Attorneys General Formerly Allocate the Market for Antitrust Enforcement?, Antitrust Report (Matthew Bender), Oct., 1998
• "Class Action Fairness Act of 2005," Connecticut Lawyer, April 2005 and Arkansas Lawyer, Winter, 2006
• "So You Think You're Safe Under the Antitrust Laws? A Word of Advice to Those Who Would Ignore the States", Matthew Bender Antitrust Report, Fall, 2002
• "ABA Newsletter of the Consumer Protection Committee - Serving The Client And The Public: Lessons From A Former State Assistant Attorney General", American Bar Association - Section of Antitrust Law: Consumer Protection Update, April, 2002
• "Global Merger Control in the New Millennium", Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., July, 2001
• “Ongoing Lessons From Poughkeepsie", Matthew Bender Antitrust Report, October, 2000
• "State Attorneys General: The Third Prong in the Antitrust Triad", The Antitrust Review of the Americas 2001: Global Competition Review Special Report
• "Can the King's Physician (Also) Do No Wrong?", Mathew Bender Antitrust Report, October, 1999
• Antitrust Guidelines Revisions to Encourage the Development of Provider Networks, Healthbeat, Winter, 1997
• "Recent Developments Concerning the Non-Profit Institutions Act", Health Care Antitrust Manual, June, 1997
• "The Revised Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care May Substantially Advance the Creation of New Provider Networks", Antitrust Report, February, 1997
• "New Guidelines Try to Reverse Perceived 'Chilling Effect' on Network Development", Health Care Antitrust Manual, October, 1996
• "Coordinated State Antitrust Enforcement: Federalism in the '90s", The Multimedia Law Report, August, 1996
• "The Impact of the New Antitrust Guidelines on Licensing", The Law Works, December, 1995
• "Enforcement by Antitrust Division Suggests New Attitude Toward Most-Favored National Clauses", BNA's Health Law Reporter, April, 1995

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