W. Benjamin Pace

Ben Pace focuses his practice on business litigation, with an emphasis on health care, product liability and fiduciary litigation. Ben has handled all aspects of civil litigation in Virginia’s state and federal courts and has also represented clients in courts across the United States. Ben’s trial practice has included both bench and jury trials, as well as arbitration proceedings.

Ben has represented health care clients in contract, real estate, professional liability, and federal False Claims Act cases. As part of his health care litigation practice, Ben frequently represents long term care facilities in licensure and enforcement matters before their regulatory boards.

In his product liability practice, Ben has developed special expertise in aviation cases, representing aircraft part manufacturers and distributors in cases across the United States.

As a fiduciary litigator, Ben has handled a wide variety of cases, including breach of fiduciary duty, will contest, and complex trust administration matters.

Ben is listed as a top business litigator in the state by Virginia Super Lawyers (2013-present), which has also included him on its Top 50: Richmond (2019, 2023) and Top 100: Virginia (2019, 2020, 2023) lists. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America^® for Litigation - Trusts & Estates (2016-present), for which he was named the Best Lawyers^® Richmond “Lawyer of the Year” (2020, 2022). He has also been named among Virginia’s “Legal Elite” by Virginia Business (2008, 2010-2011, 2016-2020). He is a member of the Virginia State Bar, the Richmond Bar Association and the Virginia Bar Association.

Ben has a long history of community service. He served on the First Tee of Greater Richmond’s Board of Directors for nine years and was its Board Chair from 2019-2021. Ben currently serves as Vice President of the Richmond Bar Association and as a member of its Board of Directors. He is a former member of the Greater Richmond Bar Foundation Board of Directors. He has volunteered his time and services to the Pro Bono Housing Project at the Legal Aid Justice Center and the No Fault Divorce Program at the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society. In recognition of his pro bono work, Ben received the Richmond Bar Association’s John C. Kenny Pro Bono Award in 2017. He is a past chair of the Richmond Bar Association’s Pro Bono Committee and CLE Committee. He previously served as chair of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee.

Ben received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia. He received his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the University of Richmond School of Law. While in law school, he was a member of the Order of the Barrister, the Moot Court Board and served as the notes and comments editor of the University of Richmond Law Review.