Ms. Parker graduated with honors from New York University School of Law, clerked for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and has the highest rating both for legal ability and ethics from Martindale-Hubbell.

In addition to her cases, publications and speeches in the areas of Civil and Criminal Forfeiture, Securities Law, and White Collar Criminal Defense, Ms. Parker has written and spoken about grand jury issues, and litigated such issues in the Supreme Court of the United States, the Second and Sixth Circuits and the Supreme Court of California. She represented a defendant in the KPMG criminal tax fraud case which was dismissed for violation of the defendants' Sixth Amendment rights, and has been lead counsel in complex Commercial Litigation cases involving issues from antitrust to piercing of the corporate veil, winning both at trial and on appeal. She lectures and teaches trial advocacy at law schools, has chaired and participated on panels at ABA and other conventions concerning cutting-edge legal issues from ethics to sentencing guidelines and has been published in a variety of legal journals. Ms. Parker is the editor of a treatise, Defending Federal Criminal Cases, and is co-author of one of its chapters, and co-author of "Civil and Criminal Forfeitures" in White Collar Crime published by Law Journal Press. She is also the author of a regular column for the New York Council of Defense Lawyers website entitled "Second Circuit Highlights," which summarizes recent opinions of interest to criminal defense attorneys.

She was a partner at the prestigious firms of Grand & Ostrow and Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg for over 10 years before opening her own firm. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers as well as community organizations, and a Co-Chair of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' White Collar Crimes Committee. Ms. Parker has been a member of the Professional Responsibility, Professional Discipline, and Judiciary Committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and a founder of the New York Women Criminal Defense lawyers. Having lived and/or traveled extensively in South, East and Southeast Asia and Western and Eastern Europe, she is familiar with many cultures.

Ms. Parker is admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts of New York, most United States Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of the United States.