While completing his undergraduate degree at Emory University, Ben Rose was blazing a path to becoming everyone’s favorite History professor when he decided to take a single graduate level law class concerning freedom of religion in the constitution. Suddenly, his plans to spend his future instilling young minds with his own passion and reverence for the genuinely phenomenal mystery of World War One’s true beginnings changed forever (although you can still find him watching WWI documentaries at home on a nightly basis.) Ben fell in love with law and earned an A in his graduate law class as an undergraduate.

After completing a five year JD/MBA program at the University of Houston in three years on a full academic scholarship and graduating as a graduate fellow scholar on the Dean’s List, he went on to pursue his masters of Environmental Law at Tulane University. He received “A”s on both of his thesis’ and started his own law firm almost immediately after graduation. Less than seven years later, Ben’s firm Bell, Rose and Cobos settled a plant explosion case for nearly $25 million dollars for their plaintiffs.

Ben started his career as a true hustler, opening his own practice at a very young age, running around asking every lawyer he knew for their “scrap” cases - cases deemed either un-winnable or too time consuming for their payoff - and winning most of them. When he settled his first six-figure case less than one year after opening his practice, he realized he had a knack for looking at cases other attorneys might consider un-winnable and getting justice - and financial compensation - for the many overlooked people who need it most. Since those early days, Ben has earned a reputation for his ability to see the whole forest when others can only see trees. His shrewd, clever ability to take a birds eye view on his cases and truly advocate for his clients has given him an exceptional knack for winning cases from angles that many other lawyers cannot see. At Ben Rose Law, he continues to fight for his clients with ease and precision, striving to accomplish his client's objectives in the simplest and most methodical manner.

During his law career in Houston, Ben took two separate opportunities to fight to serve his constituents through politics. In his first race, at 31-years-old, Ben ran against one of the most powerful incumbents in the Texas House of Representatives. Seeking to change Texas, he fought hard and raised more money for his race than any other challenger in the state. Though his race was deemed un-winnable, he sought to cause a Texas political earthquake, and was even written about in the global newspaper The Financial Times based out of London.

During that first race in 2016, Ben focused on the terrible flooding danger that Houston faced. He identified the Addick's and Barker reservoirs as the most dangerous flash points, and sadly, in 2017 his prediction came to pass, when Hurricane Harvey struck and these reservoirs broke. The first thing that Ben did was represent flood victims in court, serving as part of a team that secured a verdict in their favor. But seeing other much graver dangers to Houston, Ben decided to fight another David vs. Goliath battle, and ran to be the Chief of Attorney of Harris County, Texas, a large county encompassing greater Houston with a population of 4.7 million people. He came within a less than one percentage point of making the run-off. Ben continues to demonstrate the same passion for his fellow constituents as he fiercely fights for them through his law practice.

Why Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley? A brief history lesson, if you will.

Just over 80 years ago, Ben’s grandfather, Albert Rose, served in the United States Air Force during World War II. As fate would have it, he was stationed in Colorado and fell in love with the land. After the war, even though his family was back in New York City, he simply refused to leave. And so Ben’s grandmother, Selma - for whom his first daughter is named - moved to Colorado. There wasn’t much here back then, but Albert saw the future and boy, was it beautiful. He set up camp in both Snowmass and Denver, raised his family in this state and ultimately developed much of Snowmass’ Brush Creek Village before his passing.

Since Ben was a boy, it was his dream to raise a family in Colorado. He even wrote about it in his 5th grade year book. He spent a year clerking at the law firm Garfield & Hecht in Aspen as young man, and each year, like clockwork, he would beg his wife Laura to move to this beautiful land where his family was from. During the peak of the Coronavirus pandemic, Ben and his family camped out in his grandparents’ old cabin in Aspen for a long stretch of time. Channeling his grandfather, Ben wanted nothing more than to stay in the valley forever. And so he asked his wife, for the 100th time, if they could pick up their lives and try life in a new town.  Having said “no” many times, she looked down and saw the word “yield” on the sidewalk. To Ben's great surprise, in that one moment she switched her answer to yes. They sold their house in Houston, bought a house in the Roaring Fork Valley, and today his children are the fourth generation of people in his family to call this valley home, and Ben serves this community with passion as The Aspen Lawyer.