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Long Do

Principal Partner

Long Do is a seasoned and highly respected health care attorney with broad experience advocating for the provider community. His practice focuses broadly on professional healthcare practice issues, including physician and medical group formation and operations, scope of practice, health care services contracting, business ventures and alignment, peer review, and medical licensing board compliance. Long also represents numerous state and federal healthcare trade associations, filing amicus curiae briefs and assisting in other advocacy work and governance functions. Long has a broad and deep knowledge of professional practice issues generally and also is a nationally recognized expert on the corporate practice of medicine laws and medical staff governance. He has more than two decades of practical legal experience in civil and criminal courts at the trial and appellate levels.

Prior to joining Athene Law, Long served for over a decade as Legal Counsel and Director of Litigation for the California Medical Association (CMA). He built a renowned statewide and national profile managing CMA’s activities in the courts and regulatory agencies. He also served as the lead attorney for the CMA lobbying and regulatory teams on numerous important pieces of legislation and regulations. Long continues to work with clients on bills and regulations.

Long has appeared in federal courts and all levels of state courts throughout California, having argued on several cases before the California Supreme Court.

Representative Matters

Establish and expand an outpatient medical clinic practice for an academic institution, including strategic planning, corporate practice of medicine compliance planning, incorporation, formation of governance structures, contracting, and applying for tax-exemption status;

Plan and establish a comprehensive peer review system for a national provider organization with offices in more than half the states, including system conceptualization, federal and state-by-state compliance planning, contracting, and implementation;

Provide strategic advice to a large trade association on a major legislation package concerning the practice of medicine, including drafting and analyzing bill language;

Advise a medical group on implications of medical staff policy changes, including any rights they have under hospital procedures and bylaws;

Advise and assist in the merger of two medical staffs, including devising new bylaws and policies;

Provide legal and strategic advice to a hospital board on clinical practice policies proposed by the medical staff;

Advise medical professionals and healthcare facilities to determine strategic and policy changes in response to major Supreme Court decisions;

Manage and file amicus curiae briefs for national and state trade associations on important health care law issues before the U.S. and California Supreme Courts.

Long previously practiced law in both civil and criminal courts. He was a senior litigation and appellate attorney at the San Francisco law firm Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, PC (now Arnold & Porter) and served as a criminal prosecutor in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office under now Vice President Kamala Harris.

Education

Long is a graduate of Northwestern University and UCLA School of Law. He was in the inaugural class of the law school’s David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy and served as an articles editor on the UCLA Law Review. Long served as a law clerk to the Hon. Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco and the Hon. Robert Beezer of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Seattle.

Professional Affiliations

American Health Lawyers Association
American Society of Medical Association Counsel
California Academy of Attorneys for Healthcare Professionals
California Healthcare Consumers Foundation
California Lawyers Association, Health Law Standing Committee of the Business Law Section
California Society for Healthcare Attorneys