Leigh A. Parker
Principal

• (212) 682-3025 x. 000

Leigh A. Parker represents institutional and individual investors in complex securities class actions and derivative shareholder litigation in federal and state courts.  She has played an important role in the firm’s successful prosecution of cases that have returned over one hundred million dollars to investors in publicly traded companies.  Her notable cases include In re Apria Healthcare Group Securities Litigation ($42 million recovery); In re Platinum Software Securities Litigation ($32 million recovery); In re Abbey Healthcare Securities Litigation ($20.5 million recovery); and In re Southern Pacific Funding Corp. Securities Litigation ($19.5 million recovery).  In conjunction with the firm’s consumer protection practice, she helped to create new law with regard to the ability of consumers to prosecute cases brought under California’s unfair competition laws, reported at Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights v. Nextel Communications, Inc., 143 Cal. App. 4th 131 (2006). 

• Education

• J.D., Loyola Law School, 1993 (Associate Justice, Scott Moot Court Honors Board, Research Assistant to Professor John T. Nockleby)
• M.B.A., Thunderbird School of Global Management, 1982 (With Distinction)
• B.A., Indiana University, 1981

• Admissions

• State of California
• U.S. District Court - Central District of California
• U.S. District Court – Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court – Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court – Eastern District of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals - Ninth Circuit