David Crump is Newell H. Blakely Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. Crump attended Harvard College and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1969. He currently teaches classes on property law, civil procedure, evidence, legal practice strategies, criminal law, among other areas. Crump has been affiliated with the major firms of Johnson & Gibbs and Haynes and Boone, LLP, among others. He is also a ventriloquist, a rocket scientist, a guitarist in a country rock band, a poet, inventor of computer dating, friend of Douglas Ginsburg, an avid seniors amateur baseball player. [1] [2] In addition to numerous books dealing with property law, evidence, and practice strategies, he is the author of two works of legal fiction: Conflict of Interest and The Holding Company . [3]
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Benjamin Lloyd Crump is an American attorney who specializes in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases such as wrongful death lawsuits. His practice has focused on cases such as those of Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Keenan Anderson, Randy Cox, and Tyre Nichols, people affected by the Flint water crisis, the estate of Henrietta Lacks, and the plaintiffs behind the 2019 Johnson & Johnson baby powder lawsuit alleging the company's talcum powder product led to ovarian cancer diagnoses. Crump is also founder of the firm Ben Crump Law of Tallahassee, Florida.
