Alan Bennett ‘69

Distinguished Alumni Award 2007

Managing Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
Nominated by: Lynne Goodstein, Ross MacKinnon

Alan Bennett is managing partner in the Washington, DC office of Ropes & Gray and formerly served as Co-chair of the firm’s Life Sciences Group. His practice focuses on legal issues surrounding the development and marketing of medical products. He is a recognized expert on issues that arise under the Hatch-Waxman Act (a 1984 United States federal law which established the modern system of generic drugs) as well as issues involving pharmaceutical marketing, promotion and education.

Upon graduating from Columbia Law School in 1972, Alan served in the Office of the General Counsel of the FDA where he was a trial and appellate lawyer and legal advisor to several FDA bureaus. Subsequently, he was legislative assistant to the late Senator Jacob Javits and Counsel to the Senate Government Affairs Committee, where he concentrated on a wide variety of health regulatory matters, consumer protection and administrative law issues.

He received his BA in Political Science as an Honors Scholar from UConn in 1969, and a JD as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar from Columbia in 1972. He has been a member of the UConn Foundation Board since 2004 and is a Life Member of the Alumni Association. In 2003, Alan established the Alan R. Bennett Faculty Fellowship in Political Science Fund at the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Updated: 2007