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Robert R. Long

Partner


Robert Long is a corporate and banking litigator with particular expertise in corporate governance, director and officer liability, banking regulation and complex corporate disputes. He has substantial experience as lead counsel in matters regarding fiduciary duties, securities, and numerous federal agencies, including the FDIC, OCC, Federal Reserve, and Securities and Exchange Commission.

Robert graduated from Stanford Law School, where he was class co-president and an editor for the Stanford Law Review. He then clerked for the Honorable William T. Moore, Jr., United States District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia. He is recognized by Georgia Trend magazine as one of Georgia’s “Legal Elite” and by Atlanta magazine as a “Rising Star.”

Robert leads the Securities Litigation Group's publication of the treatise Securities Litigation: Forms & Analysis (Thomson Reuters © 2009), and frequently publishes and speaks on banking, securities, and director and officer liability/insurance.

Representative Experience

  • Lead counsel for numerous financial institution directors and officers in investigations and lawsuits involving the FDIC.
  • Lead counsel securing the total dismissal of suits against directors and officers by trustees of public companies that have entered bankruptcy.
  • Lead role in total dismissal of securities/fiduciary suits involving, among others, SunTrust, Coca-Cola Enterprises, CheckFree and Verso Technologies.
  • Member of the team successfully representing Scientific-Atlanta before the U.S. Supreme Court in Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. and Motorola, Inc., 128 S. Ct. 761 (2008).


Robert R. Long

One Atlantic Center
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309-3424
Phone: 404-881-4760
Fax: 404-253-8260

Education

  • Stanford University
    (J.D., 2000)
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (B.A., 1992)

Admitted to Practice

  • Georgia