Benjamin F. Jackson

Ben Jackson is a sophisticated and tenacious advocate with extensive experience in high-stakes litigation involving stocks, ADRs, and complex financial instruments. He is passionate about holding corporations and executives accountable for fraud and misconduct.

As a partner in the Securities Litigation & Investor Protection practice, Ben represents institutional and individual shareholders in securities class actions and derivative lawsuits. Ben is a creative and innovative litigator whose work draws on his experience across a wide range of cases, including antitrust, complex commercial, employment, patent, and white-collar matters.

Ben understands how corporations operate, having spent years advising and litigating on their behalf. Before law school, he worked as a consultant in the financial services practice of a prestigious management consulting firm, helping Fortune 500 executives sell financial products and tackle complex business challenges. After law school, as a litigation associate at a top defense firm, Ben learned the tactics corporations use to block discovery and win in court. Now, he uses what he learned inside corporate America to punish corporate wrongdoing when it puts investors in harm’s way.

Ben has significant experience litigating cases with an international dimension. He has successfully investigated, obtained discovery from, and litigated against entities and individuals located in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and South Korea. He is skilled at using the Hague Evidence Convention, 28 U.S.C. § 1782 petitions, and other cross-border discovery methods, and is registered as a Foreign Legal Consultant in Ontario, Canada.

Ben clerked for the Honorable Katherine B. Forrest of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Honorable Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as Forum Chair of the Harvard Law Review and won the Ames Moot Court Competition.

Ben is the secretary for the Institute for Law & Economic Policy (ILEP), a public policy research and educational foundation focused on the development of securities law and investor and consumer access to the civil justice system. He has also served as co-chair of the Securities and Exchanges Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association and served on the Banking Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association. Ben has maintained an active pro bono practice throughout his legal career, with a focus on civil rights and voting rights cases.