Attorneys

Jane Lang

"Representing plaintiffs, we have a direct connection to people whose lives will be profoundly affected by what we do."

Jane Lang is a founding partner of Sprenger + Lang and is now Of Counsel to the firm. She has specialized in employment litigation and housing law for over twenty years. At Sprenger + Lang she has represented plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases, including race discrimination class actions that settled against the Pillsbury Co. and Northwest Airlines, with consent decrees in 1990 and 1991. She was lead counsel with Paul Sprenger in In re Pepco Employment Litigation and numerous other cases litigated during the first half of the 1990s. She was instrumental in negotiating settlements in several of Sprenger + Lang's cases, including cases against Maytag and Control Data Corp. While continuing to consult with the firm, Jane has focused her energies during recent years on projects of the Sprenger Lang Foundation. She serves as president of the Atlas Performing Arts Center, a project to revitalize the historic Atlas Theatre into a non-profit center for arts performance and education in northeast Washington, D.C.

Jane graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967 where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1970, she received a J.D. from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the Law Review. From 1970 until 1979, Jane practiced law with the Washington D.C. law firm of Steptoe & Johnson, becoming its first female partner in 1977. From 1979 to 1981, she served as General Counsel for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. She then returned to Steptoe & Johnson until 1986. She founded her own firm and developed a plaintiffs' practice. In 1989, she and Paul Sprenger joined their firms, becoming Sprenger + Lang.