Ben Crump Named

Benjamin Lloyd Crump (born October 10, 1969) is an American attorney who specializes in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases such as wrongful death lawsuits. His firm has represented the families of Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Keenan Anderson, Sonya Massey, and Tyre Nichols, as well as people affected by the Flint water crisis, the estates of Henrietta Lacks and Malcolm X, nearly 200 concertgoers from the 2021 Astroworld Festival, and the plaintiffs behind the 2019 Johnson & Johnson baby powder lawsuit alleging the company's talcum powder product led to ovarian cancer diagnoses.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Crump is the founder of the firm Ben Crump Law of Tallahassee, Florida.[8] In 2020, Crump became the attorney for the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Jacob Blake, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor. In 2021, he became the attorney for a passenger in the car with Winston Boogie Smith and for the family of Daunte Wright. Ongoing cases surrounding their killings or injuries led to protests against police brutality in America as well as internationally.[9] Due to his legal reputation, he has been referred to as "Black America's attorney general".[10][11][12] Benjamin Lloyd Crump was born in Lumberton, North Carolina, near Fort Bragg.[13] The oldest of nine siblings and step-siblings, Crump grew up in an extended family and was raised by his grandmother.[14] His mother, Helen, worked as a hotel maid and in a local Converse shoe factory.[15] His mother sent him to attend South Plantation High School in Plantation, Florida, where he lived with her second husband, a math teacher, whom Crump regards as his father.[16] Crump attended Florida State University and received his bachelor's degree in criminal justice in 1992 and his Juris Doctor in 1995.[17] He is a life member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.[17]