Ben Rigby

Ben Rigby has over fifteen years’ experience working as a legal journalist and copywriter and is a Principal Consultant at Overture London

He is a media consultant for Arbitra International, the fast-growing membership support service dedicated to supporting arbitrators, mediators, dispute boards and neutrals, and has acted as a copywriter for leading barristers’ chambers and major 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, having previously worked as 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-practicing 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, and was a trustee of the Law Society’s Charity for twelve years.

He is a member of Clare College, Cambridge’s Alumni Council (1989), and has been a volunteer vaccination marshal with Essex Partnership University NHS Trust since April 2020.