Lucy Rigby (born 1982^{[ citation needed]}) is a British Labour Party politician and solicitor who has been Member of Parliament for Northampton North since 2024.

Early life

Rigby comes from a military and service background. Her father served in the Royal Engineers and she was born in RAF Hospital Wegberg in Germany. Her mother worked for the NHS. ^[1]

Rigby studied politics at Durham University, followed by a law conversion course at Nottingham Law School and the Legal Practice Course at Oxford.^{[ citation needed]}

Career before Parliament

In 2007, Rigby joined Slaughter and May as a trainee solicitor, with secondments in Brussels and Sydney. She became an associate at the Magic Circle law firm in 2009, specialising in competition law, and leaving in March 2011 to join the litigation unit of the Office of Fair Trading.^{[ citation needed]}

In 2012, Rigby joined the consumer body Which?, specialising in competition and consumer law matters. ^[2]

In March 2017, Rigby joined the competition specialist law firm Hausfeld & Co LLP where she subsequently became a partner. She specialised in competition law and large-scale collective redress, particularly in opt-out collective actions before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and opt-in claims via a group litigation order. ^[3]

Lucy has received various accolades as a competition lawyer. She is ranked in Who's Who Legal 2023 and 2024 as a Global Leader in Competition Plaintiff, and in the Lawdragon 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers for Competition Law. ^[4]

Rigby was a board member of The Collective Redress Lawyers Association from November 2021 to April 2024. ^[2]

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