Jeffrey J. Parker

Jeffrey J. Parker is a partner in Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP's Los Angeles office, where he specializes in business litigation, environmental law, and complex environmental litigation.

Areas of Practice

Mr. Parker has extensive experience in environmental counseling and in environmental and toxic tort litigation. His environmental and tort litigation experience includes product liability actions arising out of MTBE contamination of drinking water aquifers, as well as actions brought under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA"), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"), California Proposition 65, and various state environmental laws or tort doctrines. He has also advised clients with respect to the Polanco Redevelopment Act, California Air Resources Board variance proceedings and Regional Water Quality Control Board permit proceedings, and has handled resulting writs of mandate. In addition, he has considerable experience in business litigation, including actions involving rights of first refusal, shareholder disputes, challenges to mergers, corporate dissolution, receiver applications, injunctions, and allegations of fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. He has experience in all aspect of litigation, including discovery, motions, settlement negotiations, mediation, arbitration, trial, appeal, and writ practice.

His recent appellate victories include the landmark environmental decision Consumer Advocacy Group v. Exxon Mobil Corporation, 104 Cal. App. 4th 438 (2002), where the California Court of Appeal held that "passive migration" or "continued presence" of chemicals in soil or water did not constitute a "discharge or release" under Proposition 65.

Education

• J.D., University of Southern California, 1991, articles editor and published author for the Southern California Law Review
• B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1987, with honors

Admissions

• California
• U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Central, Eastern and Northern Districts of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Honors

• Profiled by Los Angeles Business Journal as one of " L.A.'s Leading Environmental Lawyers."

Memberships

• Member, California State Bar
• Member, Litigation and Environmental Law Sections of the State Bar of California
• Member, Litigation and Environmental Law Sections of the Los Angeles County Bar Association
• Member, California Association of Business Trial Lawyers
• Member, National Aerospace Engineering Honor Society
• Member, National Engineering Honor Society