LANGAN, PLLC
“Achieving results for our clients is our highest priority”.
Richard H. Langan, II
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Law Practice
Richard Langan has managed his own law and consulting practice since 2009 (incorporating as LANGAN, PLLC in 2018), advising individuals, start-ups, corporations, international organizations, funds and foundations. He has advised clients in corporate internal investigations; business entity formation; tech and software (SaaS) agreements; private equity; due diligence, commercial lease negotiations; transnational litigation; insurance coverage; privacy, publicity and crises public relations; media and film production; advertising; international law and immigration; social responsibility and business and human rights. He has also fulfilled a general counsel role for family offices based in New York and elsewhere.
Richard has frequently advised the United Nations, the U.S. Department of State and other International Organizations in democracy, rule of law, security sector reform, anti-corruption and human rights. He has performed high-level strategic and legal analysis of issues in over 35 countries including: Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Palestine, the Maldives, Sudan, South Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, D.R. Congo, Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Turkey, Russia and the CIS, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan.
Richard was employed previously for six years at the New York law firm of Boies Schiller Flexner, LLP (seconded to Boies by the firm’s client Tyco International, Inc.). At Boies, Richard worked directly with partners in New York and across the firm’s other offices fulfilling associate-level duties; and representing Tyco in litigation against its former executives and related investigations by governmental regulators—including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and state securities authorities. This work included review of SEC filings, corporate minutes and communications, fiduciary liability, disclosure and compliance; and e-discovery and privilege review in response to SEC, shareholder derivative and ERISA litigation.
Earlier in his career, Richard worked for a corporate health care boutique law firm in New Orleans, Louisiana and clerked with the United States Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Prior to attending law school, he worked in London, England as a claims broker in the international insurance markets at Lloyd’s of London for a subsidiary of the former S. & W. Berisford, PLC conglomerate (at the time Britain’s largest commodities broker).
Education
Master of Laws (LL.M.)(International, Foreign and Comparative Law) Columbia Law School
Articles Editor of Columbia Law School’s Parker School Journal of East European Law
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Tulane Law School
Managing Editor of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal.
Bachelor of Arts, (B.A.), Tulane University College of Arts and Sciences
Bar Admissions
New York
Colorado
Teaching
Richard previously taught law in the United States and Europe to students from over 25 different countries including serving as Assistant Professor of Law at the Central European University, Budapest and as a law lecturer in Bulgaria, Russia and Ukraine with programs of Yale University and the Open Society Foundations (formerly Open Society Institute). He advised on higher-education and democracy-building initiatives throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS.
Publications
Richard is a contributing author of the ABA’s “Rule of Law Handbook” (2013) and a co-author of the book Administrative Justice in the New European Democracies: Case Studies of Administrative Law and Process in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine(Oxford University 1998). While a researcher at Columbia Law School, he wrote and edited draft chapters for the casebook EU Law Cases and Materials, Bermann, Goebel, Davey and Fox, 2nd. 2002 (West).
Service to the Legal Profession and Community
Richard currently serves as the Chair of the Foreign & Comparative Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association (NYCBA). He formerly served for seven years as member of the Committee on European Affairs of the NYCBA. In 2007, he organized and chaired a high-level panel discussion at NYCBA entitled, “Turkey and Its Role in Europe” that had an audience participation of over 500 persons—one of the largest events of its kind ever held at the Association. Richard is a frequent contributor to the work of the American Bar Association’s International Legal Resource Centre and has represented the ABA as a member of the World Bank’s “Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development”.
Richard also serves as President and CEO of “The Other 364” Foundation-a non-profit charitable foundation in New York devoted to promoting art in elementary education; and President and CEO of The Wickland Foundation-a Kentucky non-profit devoted to historic preservation. He has contributed hundreds of hours of his time to pro-bono clients in New York--including volunteering to Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts-New York (“VLA”), where he represented independent filmmakers and directors.
Personal Interests
In his spare time, Richard enjoys extreme skiing, hiking, biking, surfing, polo, yoga, film, and travel. As a native of Louisville, Kentucky and the Bluegrass Region, horses, bourbon and racing silks are part of his cultural heritage.