Robert M. Langer is a partner in the Hartford office of Wiggin and Dana and head of the firm's Antitrust and Consumer Protection Practice Group.  Mr. Langer is involved in all aspects of antitrust, consumer protection and trade regulation counseling and litigation, representing clients 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. 1970) and the University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D. 1973), Mr. Langer was admitted to practice and became an Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Unit in 1973.  He was appointed head of Consumer Protection in 1976, and head of both Antitrust and Consumer Protection in 1980.

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 and the Editorial Board of Consumer Protection Law Developments 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. 

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).

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 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 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 Best Lawyers in America, please see http://www.bestlawyers.com/news/default.aspx ).

Selected Publications and Presentations

Publications:

• Co-author, "Class Action Fairness Act of 2005," Connecticut Lawyer, April 2005 and Arkansas Lawyer, Winter 2006
• Co-author, "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
• Author, "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
• Author, "Global Merger Control in the New Millennium," Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., July 2001
• Author, “Ongoing Lessons From Poughkeepsie," Matthew Bender Antitrust Report, October 2000
• Author, "State Attorneys General: The Third Prong in the Antitrust Triad," The Antitrust Review of the Americas 2001: Global Competition Review Special Report
• Author, "Can the King's Physician (Also) Do No Wrong?" Mathew Bender Antitrust Report, October 1999
• Author, "Should the Antitrust Division, the FTC, and State Attorneys General Formally Allocate the Market for Antitrust Enforcement?" Matthew Bender Antitrust Report, October 1998
• Author, "State Antitrust Enforcement," Committee on State Antitrust Enforcement, American Bar Association, Section on Antitrust, June 1998
• Author, Antitrust Guidelines Revisions to Encourage the Development of Provider Networks," Healthbeat, Winter 1997
• Author, "Recent Developments Concerning the Non-Profit Institutions Act," Health Care Antitrust Manual, June 1997
• Author, "The Revised Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care May Substantially Advance the Creation of New Provider Networks," Antitrust Report, February 1997
• Author, "New Guidelines Try to Reverse Perceived 'Chilling Effect' on Network Development," Health Care Antitrust Manual, October, 1996
• Author, "Coordinated State Antitrust Enforcement: Federalism in the '90s," The Multimedia Law Report, August 1996
• Co-author, "The Impact of the New Antitrust Guidelines on Licensing,"The Law Works, December 1995
• Author, "Enforcement by Antitrust Division Suggests New Attitude Toward Most-Favored National Clauses," BNA's Health Law Reporter, April 1995

Presentations:

• 54th Antitrust Law Spring Meeting, American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law, Washington DC, March 2006 [Class Action Fairness Act]
• 2005 Annual National Lawyers Convention, The Federalist Society, Washington, DC, November 2005 [State Consumer Protection Laws]
• Immunities and Exemptions: The State Action Doctrine, Antitrust Modernization Commission, Washington, DC, September 2005
• NAAG Multistate Antitrust Task Force Seminar, National Association of Attorneys General, Denver, CO, September 2005
• Product Liability Advisory Council 2004 Fall Conference, Product Liability Advisory Council, Williamsburg, VA, October 2004 [Consumer Fraud Claims]
• Antitrust Back To Basics Annual Program, WESFACCA, Purchase, NY, April 2004
• 52nd Annual Antitrust Spring Meeting, American Bar Association, Washington, D.C. March 2004 [The Unfairness Doctrine]
• 2003 ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting, American Bar Association, Washington, DC, April 2003 [National Advertising Regulation]
• The 2002 Antitrust Conference: Antitrust Issues in Today's Economy, The Conference Board, New York, New York, March 2002 [Privacy]
  

• J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law 1973
• A.B., Franklin & Marshall College 1970

• Connecticut

• Finance Officer, Section of Antitrust Law, American Bar Association
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• Member, 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
• American Health Lawyers Association

• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals (2nd, 3rd and 5th Circuits)
• U.S. District Court (District of Connecticut)