Robert Ted Parker

Ted Parker is a business trial lawyer with extensive experience in a broad range of industries: securities, IP and e-commerce, construction, products liability, agriculture and food products, film and publishing. After graduation from Cornell Law School, he began practice in business law at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco. He was the first corporate counsel at ITEL Corporation. More recently, he has practiced as a large-firm partner (K&L Gates) and a small-firm partner (Berg & Parker), and now operates a "virtual" law firm, collaborating with colleagues electronically. He has handled major litigation nationally and internationally, including as lead defense counsel in the Charles Keating/Lincoln Savings class action. Mr. Parker's client (a French bank) was the only defendant to emerge with no liability after a four-month trial that reached a $3 billion jury verdict. It was then the second-largest jury verdict in U.S. history. His construction law practice, for owners, engineers and contractors in the U.S. and abroad, has involved offshore facilities, bridge and tunnel construction, and airport and large building construction. He defended a Chicago River flood-control tunnel constructor, an LNG tanker unloading facility contractor in Mexico, and a specialty subcontractor in the collapse of an ocean-spanning cantilever bridge in Palau. Mr. Parker’s agriculture and food-production practice has involved large-scale growing and distribution of organic or nonorganic produce, including tomatoes, sugar, winery grapes and lettuce in varied growing areas in the U.S. and abroad. He handles crop loss cases in state courts and compliance issues under the USDA'S National Organic Program. Mr. Parker also represents international business interests in United States federal courts. For foreign clientele, he has handled cases in banking, securities, computer technology, trademarks, trade secrets and agriculture. He successfully argued the landma

Cornell University

J.D. (1969) | Law

1969

Honors: Editor, Cornell Law Review; Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society

Equity Partner

K&L Gates LLP

2007 - 2009

Described on Website: http://tedparkerlaw.com

Equity Partner

Berg & Parker LLP

1993 - 2005

Firm merged into Preston, Gates & Ellis LLP

Chap. 26: "Class Actions Involving Foreign Parties," in A Practitioner's Guide to Class Actions

American Bar Association

2010

West Publishing Co. Prize in Constitutional Law

Cornell Law School

1968

Diablo Symphony Association

Member, Board of Directors

Current

Bar Association of San Francisco

Current

American Bar Association

Current

Golden Gate University School of Law

Adjunct Professor

2002 - 2011

Activities: Taught courses in E-Commerce Law and Commercial Law

Appalachian School of Law

Visiting Professor

2001 - 2002

Activities: Taught courses in Conflict of Laws and Commercial Law: Payment Systems.

California

2nd Circuit

9th Circuit

Federal Circuit

U.S. Supreme Court