Benjamin Apt Email & Phone Number

Arlington County, Virginia, United States

Falls Church, Virginia, United States

Rockville, Maryland, United States

Immigration attorney with a non-profit organization serving low-income immigrants (organization acquired by another agency in July 2020).

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• RESPONSIBILITIES:As the agency’s legal counsel on criminal enforcement programs, I provide legal and policy advice on relevant issues and write memos, policy statements, and procedural guidance in the formulation of.
• Instruct EBSA investigators (almost 50) in relevant federal criminal law and procedures during annual two week professional training.
• Supervise 10 senior criminal investigative coordinators based in the EBSA regional offices.
• Prepare legal analyses, explain policies, monitor programmatic performance, and respond to questions from field.
• Serve as EBSA’s national-office liaison to federal inter-agency task forces and federal and state agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI, IRS-CID, SEC, ICE, the Postal Service OIG, NAIC, and state.
• Compose and advocate EBSA policy positions for inter-agency coordination.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Analyzed federal legislation on a spectrum of health policy matters to identify potential Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) related issues.
• Conducted analysis of departmental, ERISA-related regulations for legal consistency with ERISA.
• Developed and drafted official agency position statements for international organizations such as the OECD and the World Bank regarding private pension and health care policy.
• Participated in federal rule-making regarding private employee pension and health benefit plans.
• Provided expert knowledge in consultation with foreign governments and trade missions researching American consumer protection practices for private pension and welfare plans.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Litigated multiple ERISA civil cases involving employee pension and health care plans, resulting in monetary restoration to plans; working in conjunction with a private attorney, recovered over $17M to victims of a.
• Successfully argued milestone ERISA case involving a health benefits plan before Federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals, resulting in a published federal opinion and monetary restoration to defrauded plan.
• Composed legal memo on legal tracing improperly applied plan assets that was adopted for agency-wide training.

U.S. Department Of Labor, Bureau Of International Labor Affairs, Washington, DC

• SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Analyzed foreign national laws and treaties and conducted in-depth research on child labor practices in eight countries for annual federal report on child labor.
• Researched and proposed curriculum for training new and experienced project managers in child labor unit.
• Drafted essential guidelines to evaluate countries for new projects on international child labor practices.

The World Bank, Washington, DC

• SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Researched and reported on law reform projects by international organizations in Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, and Serbia to inform World Bank planning.
• Provided in-depth critique of the Judicial Functional Review for Serbia in preparation for Serbia’s possible accession to the European Union. This is the largest, most comprehensive judicial functional review the World.
• Wrote articles ranging from short blogs to extensive refereed studies for various World Bank on-line publications on judicial functional review-rule of law reform.

Boston, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)

• SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Wrote approximately 30 briefs on behalf of Commonwealth of Massachusetts addressing a broad range of criminal matters.
• Conducted numerous oral arguments before Massachusetts Appeals Court supporting lower-court conviction for crimes such as criminal assault and battery, criminal mayhem, and drug dealing.
• Created panel on youth violence and gang membership, garnering interest and participation from high local officials including Boston Police Assistance Commissioner and Juvenile Court Judge.
• Served as Appellate Division's special liaison to DA's Gang Crime Unit.

Boston, MA

• SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Wrote litigation documents and court filings for tort litigation federal contract arbitration.
• Organized and analyzed extensive documentation for large arbitration case.

Boston, MA

• SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Analyzed and evaluated HMO performance figures and rate-proposals to determine competitiveness of HMO-contract bids.
• Conceptualized and wrote paper selected by Commission to represent its policy position on adverse selection in HMO market.

Boston, MA

• SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Designed and established health training program for staff and residents of all state-funded familyhomeless shelters statewide, reaching approximately 15 shelters.
• Researched and published policy studies using data from homeless shelter database.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Religion/Religious Studies

Master Of Theological Studies (Mts), Theology

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Ma, International Relations, European Union