Edward Benoit

Edward A. Benoit is a senior associate in the Trial and Global Disputes Practice Group in Washington, D.C.  Edward represents clients in complex, high-stakes civil litigation at both the trial and appellate level.  Edward’s practice encompasses a wide range of subject areas, including putative consumer class actions, plaintiff- and defense-side commercial disputes, the False Claims Act, the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, ERISA, antitrust matters, and federal constitutional law. 

Before joining King & Spalding, Edward was a summer intern at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York.  Edward received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and participated in the Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinic and the Housing Clinic. 

Prior to law school, Edward was the Assistant to the Associate General Counsel for Fair Housing at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  Edward also holds a B.A. in English and History from the State University of New York at Buffalo, summa cum laude, where he won the Class of 1972 Prize for Best English Thesis and co-won the Horton Prize for Best History Thesis.