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Zachary Parks is a senior associate practicing in the firm's litigation practice group. His litigation practice focuses on class action, antitrust, and complex commercial litigation for financial institutions and corporations.
Mr. Parks also has an active non-litigation practice that focuses on advising a wide range of corporate and political clients on federal and state campaign finance, lobbying disclosure, pay to play, and government ethics laws. Mr. Parks regularly advises corporations and corporate executives on instituting political law compliance programs and conducts compliance training for senior corporate executives and lobbyists. He also has extensive experience conducting corporate internal investigations concerning campaign finance and lobbying law compliance and has defended clients in investigations by the Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee.
From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Parks was a law clerk for Judge Thomas B. Griffith on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Representative Matters
- Represented a leading financial institution in multiple consumer protection class actions, including a major multi-district class action, all of which were successfully settled.
- Represented a leading financial institution in Ross v. Bank of America, et al., an antitrust class action brought against eight banks. The case was successfully settled as to Mr. Parks’ client.
- Won dismissal of fraud claims and favorably settled multi-million dollar AAA arbitration brought against sellers of a United States software company.
Represented the respondent-counterclaimant in an ICC arbitration brought by a US real-estate development company against a Mexican real-estate development company concerning a dispute over management and operation of a joint venture.
- Advised Republican National Committee in connection with House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform investigation into White House officials' use of RNC email accounts; and
- Conducted internal investigation for the National Republican Congressional Committee into allegedly fraudulent activities of the committee's former treasurer.
Publications and Speeches
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