Atty. Long Do
Long Do is a seasoned and respected health care attorney with broad experience advocating for the provider community. His practice focuses on commercial managed care and health insurance, physician and medical group formation and practice, peer review, and trade association advocacy and governance.
Appellate Practice & More Attorney · Serving San Francisco, CA · 26+ Years Experience
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About Long Do at a Glance
Long Do is a Partner based in San Francisco, California, practicing at Athene Law, LLP. They have 26+ years of legal experience, licensed to practice since 2000. Their practice focuses on business, litigation, and appellate. Admitted to practice in California (2000) and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth and Ninth Circuits (2002). Educated at University of California at Los Angeles School of Law (J.D., 2000) and Northwestern University (B.A., 1996). Serves clients in San Francisco, CA and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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About Long Do
- Long Do is a seasoned and respected health care attorney with broad experience advocating for the provider community
- His practice focuses on commercial managed care and health insurance, physician and medical group formation and practice, peer review, and trade association advocacy and governance
- Long also is a recognized expert on the corporate practice of medicine and medical staff governance
- He has more than two decades of practical legal experience in civil and criminal courts
- 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 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 • Plan and establish a comprehensive peer review system for a national provider organization with offices in more than 23 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
- • Establish 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
- • Advise a medical group on implications of medical staff policy changes, including any rights they have under hospital procedures and bylaws
- • Represent out-of-network and in-network providers respond to health plan audits and claims reviews
- • Provide legal and strategic advice to a hospital board on clinical practice policies proposed by the medical staff
- • Argued on behalf of the California Medical Association before the California Supreme Court in Fahlen v
- Sutter Central Valley Hospitals, 58 Cal. 4th 655 (2014), involving the applicability of Westlake exhaustion requirement to Health & Safety Code §1278.5 whistleblower claims
- • Served as lead counsel for the California Medical Association in Medical Staff v
- Tulare Regional Medical Ctr. (Tulare Superior Ct., 2016), involving medical staff self-governance
- 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 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
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Long Do's Areas of Legal Practice
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Business & Corporate Law in San Francisco
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Civil Litigation in San Francisco
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Appellate Practice in San Francisco
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Practicing law in California. Legal matters in California are governed by state-specific rules of civil and criminal procedure, statutes of limitations, and substantive law. Cases originating in San Francisco are typically filed in the local municipal court or the appropriate California state district court, depending on subject matter and amount in controversy. An attorney licensed in California brings working knowledge of local procedural deadlines, judicial practices in this venue, and the substantive law that applies to cases brought here. Out-of-state attorneys generally cannot represent clients in California courts without local counsel or pro hac vice admission.
San Francisco Courts and Legal Process
Choosing a San Francisco-based attorney means your counsel already knows the local docketing timelines, preferred filing formats, and how individual judges typically rule on procedural motions — details that only come from practicing in this jurisdiction day after day. That local familiarity can translate to better strategy, faster filings, and fewer costly surprises.
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Why Clients in San Francisco Choose Long Do
Selecting an attorney is one of the most consequential decisions you can make when a legal matter arises. Below are the core qualities that distinguish Long Do's practice in the field of business, litigation, and appellate.
Decade-Tested Legal Experience
Long Do brings 26+ years of hands-on legal practice — enough to have navigated the recurring fact patterns, procedural traps, and negotiation dynamics that shape case outcomes.
Multi-State Bar Admission
Licensed in California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth and Ninth Circuits, Long Do can represent clients in cases that span state lines or require counsel in multiple jurisdictions.
Broad Practice Area Coverage
Covering business, litigation, and appellate, Long Do can address the full spectrum of a client's legal needs without requiring referrals to separate specialists for each issue.
Local Presence in San Francisco
A San Francisco-based practice means Long Do attends hearings in the same courthouses, knows the local clerks, and understands the unwritten scheduling norms that affect every case filed here.
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Common Legal Issues Long Do Handles in San Francisco
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