Ben Rigby is a freelance media consultant and journalist. He has over fifteen years of experience as a legal journalist and copywriter.
He is a media consultant for Arbitra International, the fast-growing membership support service dedicated to supporting arbitrators, mediators, dispute boards and neutrals. He is also a principal consultant to legal marketing consultancy, Overture, and management consultants, Properant.
He has acted as a copywriter for leading barristers’ chambers and significant commercial law firms.
He is a former editor-in-chief of Commercial Dispute Resolution magazine (CDR) and former editor of African Law & Business and Costs Lawyer magazines. Previously, he was a staff reporter on Legal Business and In-House Lawyer magazines. He was Bar Editor of the Legal 500 UK from 2006 to 2009.
He has written regularly for Global Legal Post, Briefing, Managing Partner, Solicitors’ Journal, the Law Society Gazette, The Lawyer, Legal Week, IBA In-House Perspective, IBA Global Insight, Africa Legal, and Tax Journal, among others.
Ben is a non-practising solicitor, who has worked in private practice, the Law Society of England & Wales and in government. He is a past president of the European Young Bar Association and past chairman of the London Young Solicitors Group. He was a trustee of the Law Society’s Charity for twelve years.
He is a Clare College, Cambridge’s Alumni Council (1989) member and was a volunteer vaccination marshal with Essex Partnership University NHS Trust from April 2020 to July 2022.
