Howard Langer has specialized in complex commercial litigation, and particularly antitrust law, since graduating the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1977. He was lead counsel in In re Linerboard Antitrust Litigation, which resulted in the largest antitrust settlement ever in the Third Circuit and just this year was lead counsel in Faloney v. Wachovia Bank, a class action that recovered over $150 million on behalf of elderly victims of telemarketing fraud. Howard also teaches antitrust law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

The prestigious Chambers & Partners USA Guide ranks Howard as one of the four leading antitrust specialists in Philadelphia.  At the conclusion of the Linerboard litigation, the court commented, “The Court has repeatedly stated that the lawyering in the case at every stage was superb, and does so again.” 2004 WL 1221350, *6 (E.D. Pa. June 2, 2004). In Cullen v. Whitman Medical Corp., 197 F.R.D. 136, 149 (E.D. Pa. 2002), the court  wrote, referring to Howard: “‘you may have to … go the extra step and … if there’s anyone who is … going to be able to do that, you will be able to do it … you go after it and you don’t let it go….’”

Representative cases include Chemi SpA v. GlaxoSmithKline, 356 F. Supp. 2d 495 (E.D. Pa. 2005), and Mutual Pharmaceutical Co., Inc. v. Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc. 1997 WL 805261 (E.D. Pa. 1997), both of which broke new ground in the area of antitrust law relating to patents in the pharmaceutical industry. Volunteer Firemen’s Insurance Services, Inc. v. CIGNA Property and Casualty, 693 A.2d 1330 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1997), enforced a covenant not to compete against Cigna, barring it from marketing a major line of insurance in an action brought by Cigna’s largest agency. Beilowitz v. General Motors Corp., 233 F. Supp. 2d 631 (D.N.J. 2002), enjoined General Motors from imposing a new national sales program on one of its largest parts distributors Cullen v. Whitman Medical Corp., 197 F.R.D. 136 (E.D. Pa. 2002), resulted in the largest recovery ever by students against a trade school.