Benjamin Lloyd Crump has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
The American attorney Benjamin Crump specialises in civil rights and personal injury cases.
Crump attended Florida State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice in 1992, and received a Juris Doctor in 1995.
Practicing law for over 20 years, Crump has represented high-profile civil rights cases such as Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Stephon Clark.
More recently, Crump has represented the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Daunte Wright, James Lowery, the people affected by the Flint water crisis, those affected by Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder ovarian cancer crisis, as well as the family of Henrietta Lacks in a landmark reparations case.
He has also hosted a documentary series on TV One called Evidence Of Innocence.
In January 2023, Crump began representing the family of Earl Moore Jr. in a wrongful death lawsuit against two Illinois paramedics, along with ambulance service company LifeStar. The paramedics were later charged with first-degree murder.
Ben Crump is the President of the National Civil Rights Trial Lawyers Association and previously served as President of the National Bar Association.
He was the first African-American to chair the Florida State University College of Law Board of Directors and is the president and founder of Ben Crump Law in Florida.
Ben Crump is the recipient of the NAACP Thurgood Marshall Award, the SCLC Martin Luther King Servant Leader Award, the American Association for Justice Johnnie Cochran Award, and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Eleanor Roosevelt Medallion for Service.
He is a frequent contributor to MSNBC, CNN, and USA Today.
Crump’s book, Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People, was published in October 2019.