James J Benjamin, Jr

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

One Bryant Park
New York
USA
NY 10036-6745
+1 212 872 8091
jbenjamin@akingump.com

Ranked In

New York
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Band 1)

Profile

Practice Areas: Represents clients in a wide variety of government and regulatory investigations and litigation, including insider trading, improper accounting and disclosure, market manipulation, commodities regulation and foreign corrupt practices cases.

Career: Federal prosecutor, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York; law clerk, U.S. Supreme Court, Justices Lewis F. Powell Jr. and John Paul Stevens; law clerk, Honorable J. Frederick Motz, District of Maryland.

Personal: AB, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth College (1987); JD, University of Virginia School of Law, research and projects editor, Virginia Law Review, Order of the Coif (1990).