Nationally-Acclaimed Political Law Advocate
Ben Ginsberg: Biography at a Glance
- Ben Ginsberg is a nationally known political law advocate with 38 years’ experience representing participants in the political process.
- Ben's clients have included political parties, political campaigns, candidates, members of Congress and state legislatures, governors, corporations, trade associations, PACs, vendors, donors, and individuals. He represented four of the last six Republican Presidential nominees. He has served as national counsel to the Bush-Cheney presidential campaigns in the 2004 and 2000 election cycles and played a central role in the 2000 Florida recount.
- His representations ranged across a variety of election law and regulatory issues, including those involving voting issues and election day operations, election recounts and contests, federal and state campaign finance laws, government investigations, ethics and gifts rules, pay-to-play laws, election administration, redistricting and communications law.
- Ben served as co-chair of the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration which produced a much-lauded report on best practices and recommendations to make U.S. elections run better.
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Ben Ginsberg is a nationally known political law advocate with 38 years’ experience representing participants in the political process. His clients have included political parties, political campaigns, candidates, members of Congress and state legislatures, governors, corporations, trade associations, PACs, vendors, donors, and individuals. He represented four of the last six Republican Presidential nominees.
His representations ranged across a variety of election law and regulatory issues, including those involving voting issues and election day operations, election recounts and contests, federal and state campaign finance laws, government investigations, ethics and gifts rules, pay-to-play laws, election administration, redistricting and communications law. Ben served as co-chair of the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration which produced a much-lauded report on best practices and recommendations to make U.S. elections run better.
Ben appears frequently on television as an on-air commentator about politics and the law and has written numerous op-eds. He has been a guest lecturer at the Stanford University Law School, a Fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.
He has served as national counsel to the Bush-Cheney presidential campaigns in the 2004 and 2000 election cycles and played a central role in the 2000 Florida recount. In 2012 and 2008, he served as national counsel to the Romney for President campaign. He also has represented the campaigns and leadership PACs of numerous members of the Senate and House as well as the national party committees, Governors and state officials. He was a partner at Jones Day from 2014 to 2020 and at Patton Boggs for 23 years before that.
Prior to entering law school, Ben spent five years as a newspaper reporter at The Boston Globe, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, The Berkshire Eagle (Massachusetts), and The Riverside Press-Enterprise (California).
He and his wife, Jo Anne, live in Washington, D.C. and have two children and four grandchildren.
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What’s the Nightmare Election Scenario?
As the preeminent lawyer for elections, Ben Ginsberg spent over 30 years in campaign law. Drawing on his experience, including serving as national counsel during the historical 2000 Bush vs. Gore election, Ginsberg will walk your audience through all potential scenarios in this unprecedented election year. When will we know our next president and what happens if we do not know by January 20th? How secure are absentee/mail-in ballots? How does the historic number of absentee ballots impact the tabulation of results? How do states ensure the credibility of election results? With trust in government and media at an all time low, how will the system convince the public the results are legitimate? What role may the Supreme Court play, and how does Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing impact that? Ginsberg taps into data, stories and expertise to explain all the complications to educate your organization.
