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About David Parker

Mr. Parker is a founding partner of Parker Shaffie LLP. He is a recognized expert in the areas of: professional liability, including legal malpractice and ethics; business insurance, including Directors and Officers liability insurance, and lawyers professional liability insurance; and business litigation, including entertainment matters, corporate disputes among shareholders, liabilities of corporate officers and directors, derivative and class actions, and nonprofit litigation. Mr. Parker was selected as a Daily Journal Top Professional Responsibility Lawyer for 2024 and 2025. Mid-2025 Mr. Parker earned a well-deserved selection to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2025 Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Attorneys list – which recognizes the very best litigators and trial attorneys in the region. He has been honored by Super Lawyers (2004 – 2025) and was identified among the “Top 100 Southern California Lawyers” (superlawyers.com) in 2009, 2011 – 2012, 2014 – 2017 and 2020. He is a Martindale-Hubbell “AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated” lawyer, the highest designation possible. Mr. Parker was a founding member of, and senior partner at Lewis, D’Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard until departing in 1995 to form this firm. Mr. Parker graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1972, where he also obtained his law degree in 1976, graduating Order of the Coif, and serving as the Associate Editor of the UCLA Law Review. Mr. Parker was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1976 and is admitted to practice before all of the state courts in California, the United States District Courts in California and Hawaii, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has tried dozens of jury and non-jury trials and arbitrations. He has acted as the principal attorney in numerous reported decisions in the State and Federal appellate courts and has served numerous times as an expert witness and consultant in his areas of expertise.