Frank H. “Fritz”’ Langrock, a partner at Langrock Sperry & Wool LLP in Middlebury, Vt, is the new treasurer of the American Bar Association. He will serve a three-year term as one of five officers on the ABA’s Board of Governors.
Langrock is a mediator and trial lawyer with a practice focusing on personal injury, criminal law, land-use litigation and civil litigation for over 30 years. He also represents clients in small business formation and real estate transactions.
Langrock served as Vermont’s state delegate to the ABA House of Delegates 2008-16, including a term as chair of the House Technology and Communications Committee. He served on the ABA Board of Governors 2017-20 as representative from District 1: Vermont, Rhode Island, Maine and New Hampshire. He served on the Board Finance Committee for three years and chaired the Subcommittee on Investments for two years.
He served on the Council for the ABA Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division, and the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services. He is a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Langrock, who received his law degree from UCLA School of Law and bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago, is a member of the Vermont Bar Foundation, where he served on its Access to Justice campaign.
Marvin S.C. Dang, managing member of the Law Offices of Marvin S.C. Dang, LLLC in Honolulu, Hawaii, is the new ABA secretary. He will serve a three-year term on the Board of Governors.
An attorney for 44 years, Dang founded his firm in Honolulu in 1981, concentrating on civil litigation, creditors’ rights, governmental relations, real estate transactions, estate planning and probate. He also is a partner in the Law Offices of Nelson & Kennard, a Sacramento law firm doing business in eight states. Dang co-manages the Hawaii office.
Dang was elected in 1982 to the Hawaii House of Representatives, elected assistant minority floor leader and served on six legislative committees. From 1984-1995, he was senior vice president and in-house counsel for Rainbow Financial in Honolulu.
An ABA member since 1975, Dang is a member of the Board of Governors, serving on the Profession, Public Service and Diversity Committee and as its liaison to the Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Senior Lawyers Division and Fund for Justice and Education. He also serves in the House of Delegates.
Dang has held numerous leadership positions in the Law Student Division, Young Lawyers Division, Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division and Senior Lawyers Division. He has been appointed to 11 committees, commissions and entities during nearly 50 years in the ABA.
Dang is a member of the Hawaii State Bar Association, National Creditors Bar Association, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and the Hawaii chapter of NAPABA, as well as a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Hawaii and JD from George Washington University Law School.
