Benjamin Jones is a Deputy Chief Attorney for OIR. Prior to joining OIR, Ben Jones served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Major Crimes Section of the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, California. As a federal prosecutor for more than 10 years, Ben Jones was responsible for investigating and prosecuting complex crimes including bank fraud, civil rights violations, computer crimes, government fraud, insurance fraud and securities fraud as well as domestic and international terrorist and violent crimes. While with the United States Attorney's Office, Ben Jones conducted numerous jury trials in federal district court and extensive grand jury investigations and argued cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
   Before serving as a federal prosecutor, Ben Jones was in private practice with the law firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohen, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. ("Mintz Levin") for several years. At Mintz Levin, Ben Jones was a litigator within the firm's Litigation Section, and practiced primarily in the firm's Boston, Massachusetts, offices. In private practice, Ben Jones represented clients at various stages of state and federal civil and criminal matters, and he conducted jury trials in both state and federal courts.
   During his last year of law school, Ben Jones participated in a program in which he served as a public defender for a year in Boston, Massachusetts. As part of that program, he represented persons in several bench trials.
   Ben Jones was graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, and from Boston University School of Law.