Nicolas Luongo is an associate in the New York office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Litigation & Trial Department.

Nicolas represents clients in high-stakes litigation, with a focus on dispositive motions and appeals in state and federal courts, including the US Supreme Court. He has drafted dozens of briefs across every level of the federal and state judiciaries and has argued before the New York Appellate Division.

His practice spans a broad range of subject areas, including securities, data privacy, intellectual property, bankruptcy, administrative law, and complex commercial disputes. Nicolas also maintains an active pro bono practice, serving on the firm's Pro Bono Committee, and representing clients on appeal in immigration and criminal cases.

Before joining Latham, Nicolas served as a law clerk to Judge Eunice C. Lee of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and as a lecturer on legal writing and international law.

Nicolas graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Prior to law school, he completed a Fulbright scholarship in South Korea and earned his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University.

Nicolas’ experience includes:

  • Obtaining a grant of certiorari in the US Supreme Court and merits briefing in an administrative-law case deciding the availability of judicial review
  • Winning precedent-setting dismissal of a Securities Exchange Commission lawsuit, challenging a software company’s cybersecurity disclosures following a data breach
  • Winning dismissal for a startup retail company on contract and quasi-contract claims, obtaining summary judgment and defeating the plaintiff’s motion to amend
  • Winning complete dismissal for a national healthcare provider of a False Claims Act qui tam action
  • Winning an appeal in the Second Circuit for a concert promoters industry association, overturning a landmark district court decision
  • Representing a major gaming and hospitality company in a consumer‑privacy class action following a data breach, and developing strategy to resist parallel mass arbitration demands
  • Representing a major technology company in Ninth Circuit mandamus proceedings to block an apex deposition of the company’s CEO
  • Representing a sports promotion company in Ninth Circuit mandamus proceedings to challenge overbroad discovery order
  • Representing a pharmaceutical industry association in a multi‑jurisdiction federal preemption challenge to state drug‑pricing regulation at trial and appellate level
  • Advising a global pharmaceutical company regarding inquiries from government regulator
  • Representing a major technology company in European data‑privacy litigation and appeal before the High Court of Ireland
  • Representing a hedge fund in complex commercial litigation through trial and appeal
  • Representing a cybersecurity software company in Federal Circuit patent appeals, briefing issues of extraterritorial and enhanced damages
  • Representing a national retailer in consumer class actions challenging discount practices, and defending against parallel mass arbitration demands
  • Representing an energy company in bankruptcy adversary proceedings
  • Advising a government‑sponsored enterprise on potential constitutional challenges to newly enacted state foreclosure law
  • Representing a major technology company on trial and post‑verdict briefing and appellate strategy in class-action privacy litigation 
  • Representing a leading artificial intelligence company defending numerous copyright lawsuits
  • Representing communications industry groups in a federal circuit court, petitioning for rehearing on issues of statutory interpretation
  • Representing a municipality in an interlocutory appeal to the Massachusetts Appeals Court on an insurance‑coverage discovery dispute
  • Representing a class of individuals in immigration detention, opposing motions to intervene and lift an injunction in the Ninth Circuit and district court, and later leading class‑settlement approval process

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, Harvard Law School, 2020
  • BA, Georgetown University, 2016