Benjamin Siracusa Hillman
Associate
Ben is an attorney who practices in a variety of areas, including litigation, health care law, and estate and probate law.
Prior to joining Shaheen and Gordon, Ben was the William J. Brennan Fellow at the national office of the American Civil Liberties Union, where he worked in the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Following law school, Ben clerked for the Honorable Janet C. Hall of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and the Honorable William A. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
While in law school, Ben was part of a clinical team that litigated a damages action on behalf of a non-citizen who was wrongly detained and deported from the United States; the case eventually reached a successful resolution. He was also a Notes Editor on the Yale Law Journal and a Comments Editor on the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.
Admissions:
- Massachusetts
- New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
*Not admitted in New Hampshire
Career:
- A.B., Harvard College, 2003
- J.D., Yale Law School, 2008
- Law Clerk, Honorable Janet C. Hall, U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 2008–2009
- Law Clerk, Honorable William A. Fletcher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2009–2010
- William J. Brennan Fellow, American Civil Liberties Union, 2010–2011
- Associate Attorney, Shaheen & Gordon, P.A., 2011–Present
Community Involvement:
- Volunteer Income Tax Preparer
Recent Publications:
- Note, Is There a Place for Religious Charter Schools?, 118 Yale L.J. 554 (2008)
