Long Do is a seasoned and highly-respected healthcare attorney advocating for the provider community. He represents all types of providers and has a strong focus on professional healthcare practice issues, including physician and medical group formation and operations, scope of practice for various licensees, healthcare services contracting, business ventures and physician alignment, peer review, and medical licensing board compliance. Long also represents numerous state and national 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 and is a nationally recognized expert on the corporate practice of medicine laws and medical staff governance. He has more than twenty-five years 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 state and federal courts and before 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 is based in Washington, DC, where he continues to work with clients in California and at the national level.
Long has appeared in federal courts and all levels of state courts throughout California, having argued on several cases before the California Supreme Court. He is licensed to practice in California, Maryland, and Washington DC, and is admitted in federal district courts throughout California, in the Northern District of Illinois, and in the District of Columbia. He also is admitted in the Ninth and Fifth Circuits and the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Establish and expand a faculty medical clinic practice for an academic institution, including strategic planning, corporate practice of medicine compliance planning, incorporation, formation of governance structures, contracting, and obtaining tax-exemption status.
- Plan and restructure or establish a comprehensive peer review system for a national and an affiliated conglomerate of provider organizations, including system conceptualization, federal and state-by-state compliance planning, contracting, and implementation.
- Provide strategic advice to a national provider group on a major legislation package concerning the practice of medicine, including drafting and analyzing bill language.
- Represent hospital and provider state associations to secure amendments to the federal regulations implementing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, expanding eligibility to California and Texas physicians.
- Represent a coalition of nearly 30 national and state provider associations in multiple amicus curiae brief filings as part of a national litigation campaign spanning several courts challenging regulations under the No Surprises Act.
- Advise and assist in the merger of two medical staffs, including devising new bylaws and policies.
- 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 Vice President Kamala Harris.
Long is a graduate of Northwestern University and UCLA School of Law. He was in the inaugural class of the law school’s 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.
