He received undergraduate degrees from the Ner Israel Rabbinical College and Yeshiva University, and a JD from Yale Law School.
His clients have included media, energy, biotech, intellectual property, health care and defense companies, real-estate developers, law firms, private investment funds, non-profits, and political candidates and campaigns.
[citation needed] Ballabon led public policy on a range of issues for Primedia, including online properties, over 300 magazine titles, and 18 satellite television networks.
[3] Ballabon managed policy for these companies and titles including About.com, IntelliChoice, Channel One News, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Films Media Group, Workplace Learning, Homeland One, Law Enforcement Television Network, Fire and Emergency Training Network, as well as magazine companies and titles, including Weekly Reader, Tiger Beat, Seventeen, Modern Bride, New York, Soap Opera Digest, Guns & Ammo, Shotgun News, Automobile, Motor Trend, Hot Rod, Lowrider, Bike, Powerboat & Motoryacht, Skateboarder, and Snowboarder.
He negotiated a federal rule permitting the closed-circuit televising of the Timothy McVeigh ("Oklahoma City Bomber") murder trial to survivors of the crime and to victims' families.
[12][13][14][citation needed] He is a member of the American Center for Law and Justice, and is active in Jewish communal and political affairs.
[21][22][23] In April 2019, reacting to continuing antisemitic remarks by Omar[24] he argued that, because of her prominent position in government, she was “more dangerous than David Duke and Louis Farrakhan combined.”[25] A character in the 1997 novel Bag Men by Mark Costello was based on Ballabon.