Benjamin Williams

Overview

Benjamin serves as Special Counsel at Watstein Terepka. He has broad experience representing Fortune 500 companies across a wide range of industries, including the retail, pharmaceutical, transportation, oil & gas, technology, and media & entertainment sectors. He has defended clients in state and federal cases involving trade-secret disputes, business torts, unfair-competition claims, TCPA controversies, consumer-protection claims, and a variety of labor and employment matters, including wage-and-hour and Title VII disputes.

Benjamin has experience in large-scale, high-stakes class action matters and in complex multidistrict litigation. He was part of the legal team that successfully defended the world’s biggest retailer in what had been the largest employment class action in history — a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court defined important lasting standards for class actions. He also has experience briefing before the United States Supreme Court.

Before joining WT, Benjamin worked at two global law firms consistently ranked among the American Lawyer’s top 15 most elite firms in the nation. He is dedicated to community involvement and served for several years as a cooperating attorney for the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund. He has a robust pro bono practice and has been recognized as a Texas Rising Star in 2014, 2015, and 2020.

While in law school, Benjamin served as editor-in-chief of the SMU Law Review’s Journal of Air Law & Commerce and was a judicial extern to the Honorable A. Joe Fish in the Northern District of Texas. He graduated in the top 2 percent of his class and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Before law school, he served as a labor-relations specialist for one of the world’s largest airlines, negotiating complex collective bargaining agreements.