Benjamin Lloyd Crump, Esq.
21st Century Civil Rights Attorney
Distinguished lawyers whose names are on the pages of American History books are not there because of their pedigree, their alma mater, or even their affluence. It is because of the landmark cases they won and how their success has changed jurisprudence. Attorney Benjamin Crump and his legal prowess and success have created a significant legal legacy that ensures that the promise found in our nation’s constitution is indeed real in every state, municipality and neighborhood. His legal acumen as both a litigator and advocate has ensured that those most frequently marginalized are protected by their nation’s contract with its constituency. The conspectus of his constitutional battles at both the local, state and federal levels will be the textbook most frequently referenced by this and future generations of civil rights law and the protection of constitutional freedoms.
Benjamin Crump has been recognized as one of The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Lawyers, Ebony Magazine Power 100 Most Influential African Americans, and bestowed the NAACP Thurgood Marshall Award and the SCLC Martin Luther King Servant Leader Award. He and his law partner, Daryl Parks, have provided legal representation and recovered millions of dollars for their clients in some of the most high profile cases in the United States. In 2001, the firm represented Zaniyah Hinson, a case discussed on the Oprah Winfrey Show where a two year-old died after being left in a daycare van for four hours in 104 degree temperatures. ESPN SportsCenter broadcast another case the firm handled which documented Leeronnie Ogletree, a 39 year-old who had been sexually molested by the Boston Red Sox Clubhouse manager when he was a ball boy as a youth. In January 2006, Crump relentlessly pursued justice on behalf of the parents of Martin Lee Anderson, the 14 year-old boy who died the day after he was restrained, beaten and suffocated at the Bay County juvenile boot camp. The camp’s security cameras captured the incident on videotape. The case was featured on television shows including NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s 20/20 and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, as well as chronicled in Essence, Jet, and Newsweek Magazines. In December 2009, Crump served as lead attorney for a class of plaintiffs who were fatally and critically injured when the Berkman Plaza Parking Garage collapsed in Jacksonville, Florida. Also in 2009, he became co-counsel of a class-action case that had been pending for more than a decade on behalf of families who sued the St. Joe Paper Company for selling them wetland in Port St. Joe, Florida. Due to their homes being built on wetlands, their houses began to fall apart as they sank into the ground allowing insects and pests to come though the walls as water pipes cracked, causing them to be without heat or hot water in the winter. Crump recently achieved a very critical victory as lead attorney on what has been characterized as a landmark voter’s rights case of this millennium when nine African-American women were arrested with guns drawn for voter fraud in Madison, Florida. In 2012, Crump led the fight for justice as the lead attorney for the family of Trayvon Martin, who was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida while walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. Presently, Crump is the lead attorney for the family of Michael Brown, the young man that was killed by a Ferguson, MO police officer, in broad daylight while holding his hands in the air.
Attorney Crump understands that the practice of law is a privilege that carries with it certain responsibilities and obligations to our society and to our democracy. He gives freely and unselfishly of his time and legal talent to represent the poor, the powerless, the defenseless and the oppressed among us. He strives through his work to fulfill the promise of equal justice for all. He is married to Dr. Genae Angelique Crump and is the proud father of Brooklyn Zeta Crump and legal guardian to Chancellor Isiah Crump and Jemarcus Crump.
Benjamin Crump has provided legal representation and recovered millions of dollars for clients in some of the most high profile cases in the United States. In 2001, the firm represented Zaniyah Hinson, a case discussed on the Oprah Winfrey Show where a two year old died after being left in a Daycare van for four hours in 104 degree temperatures. ESPN Sports Center broadcast another case the firm handled which documented Leeronnie Ogletree, a 39 year old who had been sexually molested by the Boston Red Sox Clubhouse manager when he was a ball boy as a youth. In January 2006, Crump relentlessly pursued justice on behalf of the parents of Martin Lee Anderson, the 14 year- old boy who died the day after he was restrained, beaten and suffocated at the Bay County juvenile boot camp. The case was featured on television shows like NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s 20/20 and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 as well as chronicled in Essence, Jet, and the Newsweek Magazines. In December, 2009, he served as lead attorney of a class of plaintiffs who were fatally and critically injured when the Berkman Plaza Parking Garage collapsed in Jacksonville, Florida. Also in 2009, he became co-counsel of a class-action case that had been pending for over a decade on behalf of families who sued the St. Joe Paper Company for selling them wetland in Port St. Joe, Florida. Crump recently achieved a very critical victory as lead attorney on what has been characterized as a landmark voter’s rights case of this millennium when nine African-American women were arrested with guns drawn for voter fraud in Madison, Florida. In 2012, Crump lead the fight for justice as the lead attorney for the family of Trayvon Martin, who was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida while walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. Crump was also the lead attorney for the family of Michael Brown, the young man that was killed by a Ferguson, MO police officer, in broad daylight while holding his hands in the air.