Bio

Ben Bailey, co-founder of Bailey Glasser, is a lawyer’s lawyer. He plays a leading role in the firm’s nationwide auto defects litigation cases, in complex commercial litigation, in high-stakes appeals, and in advising and representing public officials, lawyers, and other professionals. Ben’s favorite legal habitat is the courtroom. He began his trial career as a federal prosecutor, focusing on a series of fraudulent coal tax shelter cases which recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for the US Treasury. He spent the next four years as counsel to the Governor of West Virginia, and 10 years in a prominent West Virginia-based defense firm. With Brian Glasser, Ben founded Bailey Glasser in 1999. The firm almost immediately took on the representation of the State of West Virginia, in groundbreaking environmental and constitutional litigation over mountaintop removal mining, which Ben ultimately argued and won on appeal in the Fourth Circuit. As the firm grew, his practice expanded to include cases as diverse as representing hundreds of rural residents of West Virginia who lost their water wells to coal mining, and defending white-collar criminal cases and accused murderers. Ben and the firm also handled scores of complicated commercial litigations for plaintiffs and defendants, and advised and represented numerous lawyers and public officials in sensitive and confidential cases. J.D., Harvard Law School, 1980, B.A., Washington and Lee University, 1975, magna cum laude.