Benjamin “Ben” Richards joined Kane, Pugh, Knoell, Troy & Kramer as an Associate Attorney after graduating from Villanova University’s Charles Widger School of Law. His practice focuses on professional and general liability defense.

While at Villanova Law on a Dean’s Merit Scholarship, Ben served as the President of the St. Thomas More Society, Vice-President of the Federalist Society, and was a Summer Fellow at the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy. He also served as Research Assistant to Prof. Patrick McKinley Brennan, who is the John F. Scarpa Chair in Catholic Legal Studies.

During law school Ben also served as an intern in the chambers of the Honorable Joseph F. Leeson, Jr. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in the chambers of the Honorable Steven C. Tolliver, Sr. in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, at the DA’s Academy in the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office, with the in-house legal team at CrossAmerica Partners, LP in Allentown, PA, and with Kane Pugh.

Before attending law school, Ben graduated Magna Cum Laude from the College of William and Mary earning his A.B. degrees in Philosophy and Classics. He then earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Virginia and taught philosophy at Eastern University and at Martin Saints Classical High School.

Deciding to quit the halls of academe to embark on a career in law, Ben then went on to obtain a Paralegal Certificate, as well as the Distinguished Student Award, from Villanova University’s College of Professional Studies. Before returning to law school, Ben worked for two years as a Case Manager at a Plaintiff’s Mass Tort Personal Injury firm.

A son of Virginia by birth, Ben currently resides in Havertown, Pennsylvania with his wife and three daughters. He prefers to start his days with heavy metal music, running, and lifting weights. He enjoys walking in woods and quiet places. His baritone voice is often heard in church pews and occasionally from choir lofts. His dad jokes are known to conjure little girls’ giggles. He plays at being a Socrates around porches and firepits in Delco and beyond. And he practices law not for lucre, but to support his family, uphold justice, and aid his clients.