Ben Grimes

Ben Grimes is an Associate in Maynard Nexsen's Complex and Commercial Litigation practice group. Before joining the Firm, Ben served as a law clerk for the Honorable L. Scott Coogler, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. 

Ben graduated summa cum laude and Order of the Coif from the University of Alabama School of Law, where he was the Acquisitions Editor of the Alabama Law Review, a member of the Moot Court Board, a recipient of the M. Leigh Harrison Award, and a Hugo L. Black Scholar. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Alabama with a degree in Biology and received the National Merit Scholarship.

• Assisted a Berkshire Hathaway division with strategy related to a multi-year governmental investigation of lending practices by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and obtained dismissal with prejudice of subsequently filed enforcement action alleging violation of TILA’s ability-to-repay requirements.  This filing and dismissal of this lawsuit were extensively covered by various national news outlets, including Reuters, AP and NPR, among others. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. (E.D. Tenn.)