Honors and Awards:

• Selected a Fellow of Litigation Counsel of America. Selected for inclusion in Worldwide Who's Who. Rated "Superb" by Avvo, a website that rates legal and medical professionals. Honored with the Loeb & Loeb Professional and Community Service Award.  Commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of Kentucky.  Awarded the American Jurisprudence Prize in Real Estate Law at Fordham Law School.  Awarded the Kelly Prize for Excellence in Deate at City College of New York.         

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• COURT ADMISSIONS: New York State Courts; United States Supreme Court; United States Tax Court; United States Court of International Trade; United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; United States District Court, Southern District of New York; United States District Court, Eastern District of New York; United States District Court, Northern District of New York; United States District Court, Western District of New York; United States District Court, District of Connecticut; United States District Court, Northern District of California; United States District Court, Northern District of Texas; and United States District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky. 

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Pro bono/Community Service:

• PRO BONO WORK includes child advocacy work New York Children's Aid Society and child welfare reform litigation with Children's Rights.  MEDIA MENTIONS include Donor Profile: “John Lang, Inside Children’s Rights,” Fall 2008 (describing John Lang’s contributions to child welfare reform); “Settlement Reached in Mississippi Child Welfare Suit,” The Clarion Ledger, November 8, 2007 (reporting on a landmark settlement in a child welfare class action; John Lang, as co-counsel of record, led a legal team from the New York and Los Angeles offices of Loeb & Loeb LLP in support of the attorneys of the Children’s Rights advocacy organization which brought this case in U.S. District Court in Mississippi); “Public Interest Projects,” by Thomas Adcock, New York Law Journal, June 1, 2007 (reference to John Lang’s pro bono work); and “Lives That Legal Angels Saved,” by Susan Litwin, Corporate Board Member, Volume 8, Number 4, July/Aug. 2005 (about John Lang’s child welfare advocacy).

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Author of The Executive's Guide To Depositions: A Practical Reference Explaining The Deposition Stage Of Pre-trial Discovery In Commercial Litigation, Aspatore Books (Thomson-West, 2008).  Copies of this book may be obtained at West’s Web site, www.west.thomson.com, or at www.amazon.com .  All author royalties are automatically donated to Children’s Rights, a child advocacy organization.  Author of the lead chapter entitled "White Collar Crime Attorneys Add Value," in The Executive's Guide to Understanding the Laws behind White Collar Crime, Aspatore Books (Thompson-West, 2006). Recorded seminar: Preventive Measures for Executives to Avoid White Collar Crime Situations, ReedLogic Video Leadership Seminars (DVD, 2006).   Co-author of "Patenting Business Methods and Systems; the Aftermath of State Street Bank and Trust Co. v. Signature Financial," The Banking Law Journal (March/April 2000).  Co-author of "Safeguarding Business from the Threat of White Collar Crime," Directors Monthly, (October 1997).

Verdicts and Settlements:

• COMMERCIAL LITIGATIONS: Secured trial verdict, on behalf of a bank, enforcing a guarantee given to bank by real estate developer of a condominium development loan.---Secured dismissal of commercial tenant’s RICO class action suit against landlord of major Midtown NYC office building.---Represented insurance company in trade libel action against competitor which had published false representations regarding the financial soundness of company’s insurance product.  Obtained settlement which included retraction of the false claim.    WHITE COLLAR CRIME MATTERS: Successfully represented a national bank that was the subject of a joint Justice Department and Treasury Department investigation into alleged national and international currency transaction reporting violations and money laundering activities.  Avoided any action against the bank and assisted its staff in developing a comprehensive compliance program as part of a non-prosecution settlement.---Defended CEO of largest West Coast container facility against charges, including bribery of a federal officer, arising out of a joint federal task force investigation of alleged customs violations and employment of illegal aliens.  Confronted with Defendant’s prior guilty plea in U.S. District Court, videotaped confession to the FBI, audiotape of the alleged bribe, and expected adverse testimony of the defendant’s wife (who helped manage the business), obtained withdrawal of the guilty plea, suppression of the confession, a mistrial, and subsequent dismissal of the charges, based upon an entrapment defense, the government’s failure to disclose documents, and the perjury of the federal agent who allegedly received the bribe.---Secured no-action disposition; represented CFO of insurance company accused of fraudulent SEC filings.  The client was under investigation by the Justice Department, the SEC, and a Special Committee formed by the company’s Board of Directors.  All matters were closed with no action taken against the client.    TAX, ESTATE, AND TRUST CONTROVERSIES: Won jury trial verdict of no tax liability in U.S. District Court case where the IRS had claimed against a bank, on a theory of vicarious tax liability, for withholding taxes that a commercial loan customer of the bank had failed to pay.---Won jury trial verdict in Surrogate’s Court on behalf of testator’s estate rejecting, as forged, a purported codicil to testator’s will.   Represented CEO of oil company in IRS audit.  Secured favorable settlement of tax liability.---Obtained a mistrial for a senior partner of an accounting firm after four weeks of a U.S. District Court trial on felony tax evasion conspiracy charges.  Matter was later resolved with misdemeanor plea to failing to file an informational return.  Client received a sentence of probation and, in subsequent state proceedings, his CPA license was preserved.    

Other Outstanding Achievements:

• John Lang is a graduate of the College of the City of New York and Fordham University School of Law, where he interned with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, assisting with organized crime prosecutions.  Upon graduation, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and saw combat in Vietnam as a member of the 26th Marine Regiment during the Tet Offensive.  John Lang served as an Assistant District Attorney for New York County and tried dozens of felony cases before juries.  He was Senior Trial Counsel in the Major Felony Program of the District Attorney’s Office and was later promoted to Deputy Chief of the Frauds Bureau, where he specialized in white collar crime investigations and pioneered Medicaid fraud prosecutions.  He was appointed a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Special Prosecutions Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's Office, serving as chief assistant and lead trial counsel to a special prosecutor investigating official corruption in Upstate New York.

Video:

• John F. Lang, New York White Collar Crime Defense Lawyer, 2010