Ben Jewell

Associate Attorney Ben Jewell works with the firm’s Compliance team, advising clients on proactive compliance with federal and state telemarketing and privacy laws. He works with businesses across numerous highly-regulated industries and has a particular depth of experience within the healthcare and life sciences sectors.

Bringing previous experience as Assistant General Counsel for a nationally-ranked Children’s Hospital and Pediatric Research Institute, Ben understands firsthand the challenges complex organizations face in meeting compliance responsibilities, while also serving the needs of multiple powerful constituencies. In that role, he advised on a wide range of business and legal matters related to intellectual property protection and commercialization, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA and other data privacy laws, charitable fundraising, and advertising and marketing compliance. Ben also has substantive experience in complex commercial litigation, as well as drafting and preparing memoranda, pleadings, motions, discovery documents, and employment policies.

When not helping M&S clients tackle their biggest compliance challenges, Ben can be found playing golf, cheering on his hometown Ohio State Buckeyes, and occasionally being tackled by his own young children.

• Served as regulatory compliance counsel for a pediatric research institute ranked among the top 10 NIH-funded freestanding pediatric research facilities in the U.S.
• Assisted in the corporate formation of a biopharmaceutical manufacturing company, leading the assignment, licensing, and transfer of intellectual property rights.
• Assisted in the corporate formation of a nonprofit supporting children’s mental health needs by providing education and resources to communities nationwide. Prepared applications for 501(c)(3) status at the federal and state levels.
• Managed the trademark and copyright portfolios of the second largest children’s hospital system in the United States.
• Compiled 50-state surveys for clients in varied industries, covering regulatory practices and matters related to telehealth services, provider licensing, privacy, data breach and other laws.
• Drafted and negotiated agreements including intellectual property license agreements, clinical trial agreements, grants/awards/funding agreements, data privacy agreements, and others.