Cohen Milstein

Benjamin Brown, a Partner at Cohen Milstein, joined the firm in 2005 and is a member of the Antitrust practice group.  He has extensive experience leading complex litigation, particularly class actions.

In 2010, the Legal 500 recognized Mr. Brown as one of the nation’s leading class action antitrust attorneys.  Mr. Brown is a contributing author of the ABA’s Antitrust Class Actions Handbook, and, since 2005, has served as a state editor for the ABA's Survey of State Class Action Law.  He co-authored chapters on private antitrust recovery actions for the 2008 and 2010 Global Competition Review's Antitrust Review of the Americas.  Most recently, Mr. Brown co-authored with fellow partner Douglas Richards a forthcoming article for the Rutgers Law Journal entitled, Predominance of Common Questions – Common Mistakes in Applying the Class Action Standard.  He discussed joint civil and criminal investigations and litigation as a featured panelist on both the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) 2009 Summer CLE Program and the 2010 University of Texas Law School’s Review of Litigation Symposium.  Mr. Brown has been honored by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for outstanding commitment in pro bono litigation.  He has been a guest on CNBC's "Power Lunch" and has also been interviewed regarding antitrust class actions by various television affiliates and radio networks.

Mr. Brown currently serves as co-lead counsel or on steering committees for plaintiffs in, among other cases, In re Aspartame Antitrust Litigation (E.D. Pa.); In re Plasma-Derivative Protein Therapies Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Ill.); Allen, et al. v. Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. (D. Vt.);  In Re Puerto Rican Cabotage Antitrust Litigation. (S.D. Fla.); and Carlin, et al. v. DairyAmerica, Inc. (E.D. Ca.).   He has served as class counsel in numerous other successful cases litigated across the country at all levels of federal appeals, helping to achieve over one hundred million dollars worth of recoveries on behalf of clients. 

Mr. Brown came to Cohen Milstein after four years as a trial attorney with the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice.  While there, Mr. Brown led and assisted in numerous investigations, litigations and trials involving anticompetitive conduct and mergers.  Mr. Brown also prosecuted criminal cases as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.  Prior to joining the Department of Justice, he was in private practice with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., handling insurance coverage and antitrust litigation.  Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Brown served as a judicial law clerk for Chief Judge Juan R. Torruella of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Mr. Brown graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.  

Mr. Brown is admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia.