Long, Robert
Counsel for the regulation firm of Lewis and Roca in defense of securities fraud and skilled liability claims arising out of the firm’s representation of Sun State Savings & Loan Association. Counsel for the legislation companies of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, Morrison & Foerster LLP and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP in varied professional legal responsibility cases and partnership issues. Trial counsel for the legislation agency of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in protection of claims by an expelled partner. Trial counsel for the law firm of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue in defense of securities fraud claims introduced in American Continental Corporation/Lincoln Savings & Loan Securities Litigation, as well as defense of parallel professional legal responsibility claims brought by the Resolution Trust Corporation. Latham & Watkins supplies first-class thought management across practices and industries, regionally and globally.
Mr. Long was counsel to CBS Corporation, the Walt Disney Company, and other media company petitioners. The court stayed, and subsequently vacated, an FCC order issued in reference to the FCC’s evaluation of the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable and AT&T-DirecTV mergers, that might have made petitioners’ highly confidential enterprise documents obtainable to 3rd events. Meoli v. The Huntington National Bank (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit 2017). Mr. Long represented the Huntington National Bank on this bankruptcy case.
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Bell Atlantic v. Twombly (U.S. Supreme Court 2007), Leegin Creative Leather Products v. PSKS, Inc. (U.S. Supreme Court 2007), and Texaco v. Dagher (U.S. Supreme Court 2006). Mr. Long was counsel to the American Petroleum Institute, which filed briefs as amicus curiae in every of these antitrust instances. In Leegin, the Court overruled its prior selections holding that vertical minimum resale value upkeep is a per se violation of the Sherman Act. Dagher addressed the legal standard for antitrust analysis of joint ventures. Mr. Long was counsel to the Xerox Corporation pension plan on this ERISA case.
The Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire killed 15 backpackers on June 23, 2000. The hostel was located within the town of Childers, in Queensland, Australia, a city in style amongst backpackers for its fruit choosing work. Long had been kicked out of the hostel, and lit the fireplace in the early hours of June 23, while more than eighty backpackers were asleep inside. If your inquiry relates to a legal matter and you aren’t already a present consumer of the agency, please don’t transmit any confidential information to us. Before taking up a representation, we should determine whether we are able to help you and agree on the terms and conditions of engagement with you.
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