Richard H. Langan II, Esq.
LANGAN, PLLC
“Achieving results for our clients is our highest priority”.
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 business entity formation; general corporate law; operating agreements; corporate internal investigations; regulatory compliance; tech and software (SaaS) agreements; private equity; due diligence, commercial lease negotiations; litigation and discovery strategy and support; 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 served as Legal Counsel (xWF) to Google, LLC between 2023-2025. At Google, LLC he responded to over 150+ 3rd party subpoena requests and notices of disclosure; coordinated with Google’s outside counsel on subpoena responses, objections, and strategy; and conducted investigations of data and document sources and locations via communication and collaboration with product counsel and non-legal team members. Matters handled ran across Google as an organization involving general litigation, patent litigation and employment discovery.
Richard was previously employed 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
Service to the Legal Profession and Community
Richard currently serves as the New York City Bar Association (NYCBA) Delegate to the International Bar Association (IBA) and as a voting member of the IBA’s Governing Counsel. In this capacity he represents the NYCBA’s 23,000+ members before the IBA. Richard also sits on the NYCBA’s “Task Force on AI and Digital Technologies”, the NYCBA “Council on International Affairs” and NYCBA “Middle East North Africa Affairs Committee”. Richard is the former Chair of the NYCBA “Committee on Foreign and Comparative Law” and as Co-Chair of the NYCBA “Sub-committee for Ukraine.”
Richard is also active in the American Bar Association, Section of International Law and Practice. He was a founding member of the World Bank’s “Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development.”
Richard currently serves as President and CEO of The Wickland Foundation, Inc. (a Kentucky non-profit devoted to historic preservation). He previously served for over 10 years as President and CEO of “The Other 364 Foundation” (a non-profit charitable foundation in New York devoted to promoting art in elementary education).
Richard has contributed thousands 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.
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).
Personal Interests
In his spare time, Richard enjoys skiing, hiking, biking, surfing, equestrian polo, yoga, photography, cinema and travel. As a native of Louisville, Kentucky and the Bluegrass Region, horses, bourbon and racing silks are part of his cultural heritage.