Howard Langer

Practice Areas

Howard Langer, a founding partner of the firm, has specialized in complex commercial litigation, particularly antitrust law. He was lead counsel in In re Linerboard Antitrust Litigation, which resulted in what was then the largest antitrust recovery ever in the Third Circuit. He was lead counsel in two class actions that recovered over $150 million and $37.5 million respectively, the full sums wrongfully taken from the victims’ accounts of telemarketing frauds. Faloney v. Wachovia Bank and Reyes v. Netdeposit, LLC. In 2016, he shared the award of the American Antitrust Institute for Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice for his work in two cases involving the broadcasting of major sports leagues. He is presently co-lead counsel in In re Nat’l Football League’s Sunday Ticket Antitrust Litig., No. 17-56119, 2019 WL 3788253 (9th Cir. Aug. 13, 2019), which sustained the plaintiffs’ challenge to the National Football League’s broadcast policies. In 2019, Howard received the William J. Brennan, Jr. award of the Volunteers for the Indigent Program of the Philadelphia Bar Association for his extensive work on behalf of the underprivileged.

Professional Memberships

American Law Institute, American Inns of Court, Best Lawyers in America, Board of Directors of the Public Interest Law Center, and Board of Directors of the Magee Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation.

Publications

Competition Law of The United States, Wolters Kluwer (4th Ed. 2019)

Awards

Education