Benjamin Widlanski

Practice Areas

Complex Commercial Litigation; Class Actions

Career

After graduating law school, he served for almost five years in the United States Army as a Captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps,

where he advised various commanders on military justice matters and other legal issues, litigated in federal court and military courts martial, and received numerous medals and distinctions, including a Bronze Star. After his time in the Army, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. During that time, he prosecuted and investigated hundreds of federal crimes, including labor trafficking, sex trafficking, sex tourism, narcotics trafficking, violent organized gangs, aggravated identity theft, money laundering, wire and mail fraud, cyber crimes and crimes involving the Dark Web and cryptocurrencies, armed robbery, international kidnapping, and murder. He also briefed and argued multiple matters before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and managed large investigative teams from virtually every federal law enforcement agency.

Experience

Ben is the chair of the class action and contingency practice group at KTT. He has served as court-appointed lead counsel in numerous class actions and has received multiple appointments to leadership committees in multidistrict litigation, and has even served as a court-appointed special master. Ben has extraordinary trial and courtroom experience, including having taken a class action to jury verdict, and he also teaches litigation skills at the University of Miami Law School. He currently serves as a national co-lead in the In re: Insulin Pricing Litigation MDL pending in New Jersey. He focuses his practice on fraud, antitrust, product liability, and financial services class actions, as well as largescale, bet-the-company business torts on both sides of the “v”. In addition to his legal practice, Ben serves on multiple charitable boards and is active in various veterans-focused organizations.