Benjamin Keane
USA Guide 2024
Band 3 : Political Law
Band 3
About
Provided by Benjamin Keane
Practice Areas
Ben Keane is a Partner in the Washington, DC and Atlanta, GA offices of Dentons and co-chair of the firm’s Political Law, Ethics and Disclosure Team. Mr. Keane focuses his practice on the representation of elected officials, political candidates, PACs, SuperPACs, political parties, corporations, non-profit organizations, and other entities regarding election law, campaign finance, lobbying, pay-to-play, and ethics matters. He regularly advises businesses, trade associations, and other non-profits on the establishment and maintenance of effective political law compliance frameworks. Additionally, Mr. Keane assists clients across the country with political law investigation and audit matters involving federal, state, and local government authorities, and frequently counsels presidential nominees, appointees, and other federal officials on confirmation and ethics matters.
Publications
Mr. Keane is an editor of and contributor to the award-winning Pay-to-Play Law Blog and the Dentons Political Law Playbook monthly newsletter.
Personal
Mr. Keane is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia School of Law, and a 2016 alumnus of the Political Leaders Program at UVA’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership - a program that annually recognizes a bipartisan group of Virginia’s up-and-coming political and community leaders from across the Commonwealth.
Chambers Review
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Benjamin Keane is co-head of Denton's political law, ethics and disclosure team. He boasts a burgeoning political law practice representing corporations, government officials and nonprofit organizations on pay-to-play rules, ethics and election law.
Strengths
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"Ben is a one-stop shop. Regardless of the issue, we can go to him and he has a solution. He is available and responsive to us and our needs."
"His appetite to help never wanes; there is not an issue he will not engage with 100%. He is fully dedicated to us as a client and thoroughly responsive, willing to use all the resources of the firm to get us what we need."
"His biggest attribute is that he takes complex legal situations and boils it down to something straightforward with clear outcomes and options moving forward."
"Ben is a one-stop shop. Regardless of the issue, we can go to him and he has a solution. He is available and responsive to us and our needs."
"His appetite to help never wanes; there is not an issue he will not engage with 100%. He is fully dedicated to us as a client and thoroughly responsive, willing to use all the resources of the firm to get us what we need."
"His biggest attribute is that he takes complex legal situations and boils it down to something straightforward with clear outcomes and options moving forward."