About the firm
BENJAMIN E. GRIFFITH, PLLC
Ben Griffith's federal and state civil litigation practice traces back to his early civil trial work in the Mississippi Delta with his late father and law partner, Ellis Griffith. That work began to reach into other states during the late 1970's. Ben’s civil litigation practice is now based in Oxford, Mississippi and extends to representing state agencies, counties, cities, school boards, elected officials, nongovernmental entities and other private sector insureds and their insurers in federal and state civil litigation throughout Mississippi and in other jurisdictions.
He has been associated to represent defendants in federal and state civil litigation in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington, D.C. With Oxford, Mississippi as a base for an expanded multi-state practice, Ben’s work focuses on defense of state and local governments, agencies, and school districts in civil rights, voting rights, election law, governmental tort liability, and First Amendment litigation, representation of commercial entities and other private sector insureds in premises security litigation, public entity insurance coverage disputes, and environmental law with a focus on water resources management.
An Adjunct Professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law since 2014 for the Municipal Law Practice Skills Course and Election Law Skills Course, he served on the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association from 2016 to 2019 and served as a member of the ABA House of Delegates from 2009 to 2019. He presently serves on the ABA Rule of Law Initiative Board (ROLI), the ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force and the Council of the Central Europe and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI). In August 2020 he was awarded the Jefferson Fordham Advocacy Award by the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law, presented in recognition of outstanding legal advocacy within the area of state and local government law and celebrating excellence in advocacy, both written and otherwise.
