U.S. Department
of Justice
Benjamin Marks
Benjamin Marks is the Director of Litigation Support at the United States Department of Justice (Department), National Fraud Enforcement Division (Fraud Division) where he is an expert in technology and E-Discovery and oversees the Advanced Litigation Support Section for the Division. Mr. Marks is active in the E-Discovery community and continues to be a leader in the industry. He is a member of the Federal E-Discovery Working Group, and a co-chair of both the E-Discovery Modernization Working Group and the Filter Review Working Group for the Department of Justice. Mr. Marks officially joined the Fraud Division on August 23rd, 2026, after a six-month detail from Civil Division.
Mr. Marks has worked at the Department for over 10 years. His tenure began as the Director of Automated Litigation Support at the Tax Division where he worked to modernize the legal technology practice there and to develop a full-service litigation support operation. After a Departmental reorganization in 2025, Mr. Marks moved to the Civil Division and oversaw the transition and migration of data and personnel. He worked to continue supporting Tax cases while delivering a new model of support to Civil Division that was based on his previous success. In the Spring of 2026, Mr. Marks acted as an advisor to the developing Fraud Division before joining fulltime in August 2026.
Mr. Marks earned his bachelor’s degree in 1999 from the University of Maryland in College Park. After graduation, Mr. Marks began a career in the fast-growing field of technology at Nasdaq and Electronic Data Systems. He has worked in the general technology field for over 25 years and spent the last 20 years focused on legal tech, both at the law firm of Arnold and Porter, LLP (now Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP) and as a Federal employee at the Internal Revenue Service and the Department. In both roles, Mr. Marks was responsible for taking what he learned developing litigation support in the private sector and applying that knowledge to build out similar operations for the Federal Government. He also spent time as a contractor for the Department Tobacco litigation and EOIR where he trained judges, attorneys, and staff on use of technology in support of their cases.