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The lawyers for Trayvon Martin’s family have been traveling the country, talking to anyone who will listen, about what they call the need for justice. As Mike Vasilinda tells us, the lawyers have a knack for focusing attention on cases when no one is listening.

In 2006, Martin Lee Anderson was just another troubled 14-year-old who died in a boot camp until Attorneys Ben Crump and Daryl Parks got involved.

The attorneys forced the release of this video of Martin’s beating at the hands of guards. The state settled for five million dollars.

In 2008, the attorneys took on the state’s largest land owner. The company had sold these nine houses built on a foundation of wood waste. The families got new houses; the attorneys didn’t get a dime.

Ben Crump says he first told Trayvon Martin’s family that they didn’t need him.

“Then days go by and nothing happens, and that’s when we have to do things legally and publicly,” Crump said.

Crump and partner Daryl Parks, who is president of the National Bar Association, serve as preachers, civil rights activists, and lawyers. Crump first caught  former FSU President Sandy D’Alemberte’s attention as an undergraduate.

“He’s as good as anybody I’ve ever seen,” D’Alemberte said. “But that’s true of both of them. They really have a natural eloquence, and then when you get to know them, you know that it comes from very deep inside.”

Framed newspaper stories line their modest office walls and tell of their crusades. There is even a mock courtroom to make clients more comfortable.

The lawyers are fond of saying that even the folks who take the early bus to work deserve justice.

Ben Crump says he told his grandmother he wanted to be a lawyer when he was five.

The law firm is also gaining national notoriety appearing as guests on international news programs to talk about the Trayvon Martin case.