Allen, Benjamin Wilson

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Updated 09/16/11

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Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

1875 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20006

Phone: +1 202 247 2059 (Business Phone)

Fax: +1 202 663 6363 (Business Fax)

Contact Us (Business Email)

Websites associated with this firm:http://www.wilmerhale.com

Summary

Year Joined Organization: 2006

Lawyer Overview

Benjamin Allen is a senior staff attorney in the firm's Securities Department, and a member of the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice Group. He joined the firm in 2006.

Practice

Mr. Allen focuses his practice on issues of e-discovery. Specifically, he works with other attorneys, litigation technology project managers, and paralegals on teams that manage electronic and other documents in large cases and investigations. Attorneys on these teams take a leadership role in the document control process, systematically tracking documents from preservation to collection and through review and production. They work with e-discovery vendors and their review and analytical tools; review documents; train and oversee other firm and contract attorneys who review documents; and partner with project managers to perform production quality control.

From 2005-2006, Mr. Allen was a contract attorney for WilmerHale and another international firm in Washington, DC, conducting privilege and document review for regulatory investigations.

Prior to joining the private sector, Mr. Allen was a volunteer attorney with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation on the Anacostia River Initiative, where he worked with a team of pro bono attorneys on Clean Water Act litigation and devised legislative strategy. Mr. Allen also served as a Legislative Correspondent in the Office of United States Representative Peter Visclosky and as an attorney with Boulder County Legal Services in Colorado.

Professional Activities

Mr. Allen is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association and the State of Colorado Bar Association.

Areas of Practice

  • Securities
  • Litigation and Enforcement

West Practice Categories

Securities Law, Securities Regulation

Qualifications

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • Colorado

Education

  • University of Colorado School of Law, 2003
    JD
  • Vanderbilt University, 1998
    BA, Political Science

Office Information

Address

1875 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006

Phones

+1 202 247 2059 (Business Phone)

Faxes

+1 202 663 6363 (Business Fax)

Emails

Contact Us (Business Email)

Websites

http://www.wilmerhale.com

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