James T. Parkinson

James Parkinson, a partner at BuckleySandler, focuses primarily on enforcement defense litigation, including corporate internal investigations and compliance counseling. He represents clients in a wide variety of criminal and civil enforcement matters, including alleged Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), securities fraud, insider trading, false statements, and environmental crimes actions.

Mr. Parkinson's practice includes extensive FCPA representations involving both litigated and settled FCPA enforcement matters, international investigations, and compliance counseling. He writes and speaks frequently on the FCPA (see lists below) and has made in-person presentations on anti-corruption topics in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, London, Brussels, Vancouver, New York, Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Mr. Parkinson's experience also includes extensive environmental enforcement defense work, including two major environmental crimes trials: U.S. v. W.R. Grace (D. Montana 2009) and U.S. v. McWane (S.D. Ala. 2005). Mr. Parkinson's environmental litigation and counseling experience has involved the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Superfund (CERCLA).

Prior to joining BuckleySandler, Mr. Parkinson was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Mayer Brown LLP, and was an associate with Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. He is a member of the Anti-Corruption Committees of the American Bar Association (Vice-Chair, 2007-08 term), the International Bar Association and the American Chamber of Commerce in India, is on the Steering Group of the ABA Section of International Law's India Committee, and is an associate-at-large with the Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court.

Mr. Parkinson received his J.D. from The American University, Washington College of Law (magna cum laude), where he served as Senior Editor on the Administrative Law Review. He received an M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Gettysburg College.

Mr. Parkinson is co-located between the Firm's Washington, DC and Los Angeles offices.