Alternate Office(s)
Areas of Practice
- Asset Recovery and Creditors' Rights
- Banking & Financial Services
- Banking & Financial Services Litigation
- Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors'-Debtors' Rights
- Business & Commercial Litigation
- Class Action Defense & Multi-District Litigation
- Commercial Lending & Finance
- Corporate Compliance & White Collar Defense
Education
- The University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 1989; Order of the Coif; Editorial Board, Alabama Law Review, 1987–1989; Dean M. Leigh Harrison Award; Hugo L. Black Scholar
- The University of the South, B.A., 1986
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, 1989
- District of Columbia, 1991
- Florida, 2007
- Texas, 2007
Ben Harris is a partner in the firm's Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group and practices from the firm's Mobile office. His practice includes complex civil litigation, securities litigation, and litigation involving financial institutions, and he represents financial institutions in lender liability actions, suits to enforce creditors' rights, and in suits relating to operational matters. Mr. Harris also represents troubled financial institutions and their officers and directors across the country.
Recently, Mr. Harris obtained successful jury verdicts in complex, multi-million-dollar cases in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He has also served as counsel to publicly traded bank holding companies in shareholder derivative and class action litigation, and has served as counsel to special committees of the boards of directors of these institutions in such matters. Mr. Harris is admitted to practice in Alabama, Florida, Texas, and the District of Columbia, as well as in federal courts in a number of jurisdictions.
Mr. Harris has also assisted financial institutions and other clients in resolving issues in Central and Latin America, and has assisted companies and educational institutions interested in developing trade in Cuba. He has traveled to Cuba on several occasions for that purpose.
Mr. Harris is a member of the Board of Directors of the Sociedad Mobile-La Habana and is a member of Mobile United and Leadership Mobile.
Noteworthy
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC) in the area of Commercial Litigation (listed annually since 2009)
- AV® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell
News
- Eighty-Two Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012
- Seventy-Three Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2011
- Jones Walker Now Agent for First American Title in Florida
- 2010 Best Lawyers in America Rankings Showcase Jones Walker’s Depth, Growth
- Sixty-Three Jones Walker Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009; Jones Walker Top-Listed in Louisiana
- Jones Walker Joins with Miller Hamilton
Presentations
- Corporate Compliance Seminar, February 11, 2005
Memberships
- Alabama State Bar
- District of Columbia Bar
- The Florida Bar
- Leadership Mobile
- Mobile United
- Sociedad Mobile-La Habana (Board of Directors)
- State Bar of Texas
