Benjamin J. Blustein

Benjamin Blustein is a civil litigator with more than 30 years of trial experience. His practice focuses on discrimination, civil rights, environmental and public client litigation. Ben has been named a Leading Lawyer by his peers, and has tried numerous cases to verdict in federal and state courts across the country.

Prior to joining Miner, Barnhill & Galland in 2007, Ben served for many years as a civil rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, where he brought lawsuits to enforce federal anti-discrimination laws. He also served as a voting rights attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C., where he worked to enforce and advance voting rights.

At MBG, Ben represents both individual clients as well as organizations like the NAACP and Sierra Club. In recent years, he has served as a Special Assistant Attorney General for numerous states that have sued companies for violating consumer protection and anti-fraud laws. This work has included representing several states that brought cases against drug manufacturers for reporting inflated drug prices that resulted in windfall profits at the expense of taxpayers.

Ben is also a trained mediator, and mediates cases for the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations.