BUDDY PARKER, ESQ.
COUNSEL

Phone: (404) 228-4822
Direct Line: (404) 228-4822
Fax: (404) 228-4821
📧bparker@knightpalmerlaw.com

One Midtown Plaza
1360 Peachtree Street, Suite 1201
Atlanta, Georgia 30309

Education

  • J.D., University of Alabama School of Law (1975)

  • Master of Laws in Taxation (LLM), Emory Law (1976)

  • MBA, University of Alabama (1975)

  • B.S., University of Alabama (1972)

Buddy Parker is a trial lawyer that specializes in business litigation, fraud, RICO, and white collar criminal defense representing corporate owners, officers, and directors.

Buddy has over 50 years of experience litigating high profile criminal cases, for both the United States Department of Justice and as a private defense attorney. He brings to the firm his special expertise in fraud, tax, money-laundering, RICO (Civil/Criminal), forfeiture and litigating complex commercial civil matters.

After receiving both his law degree and an M.B.A. from the University of Alabama, Mr. Parker completed Emory University's L.L.M. program in taxation, providing a unique foundation for the areas of law he would develop for both the Government and his private clients over the next five decades.

Buddy entered Government service in 1978 in Washington, D.C., as a Trial Attorney with the Criminal Section of the Tax Division of the Department of Justice. For the next five years, he participated in investigations and prosecutions of tax and related frauds across the country, including Boston, New York, Atlanta and Miami. He also tried cases in smaller venues including Midland, Texas; Jackson, Mississippi; and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1983, Mr. Parker transferred to the U.S. Attorneys office for the Northern District of Georgia. During his tenure as an Assistant United States Attorney in Atlanta, Mr. Parker participated in hundreds of investigations and prosecutions of complex financial activities involving money laundering/fraud and racketeering, and international narcotics trafficking. Mr. Parker became a supervising Assistant U.S. Attorney managing cases as well as maintaining his own trial calendar. While working for the Department of Justice, Mr. Parker received five national awards for trial advocacy skills. From his investigations in the Atlanta U.S. Attorneys office, he became one of the pioneers of U.S. money laundering prosecutions with their attendant forfeitures. Through the international aspects of these investigations, he became a recognized expert on money laundering and U.S. forfeiture law, making numerous presentations throughout Europe, North America and the Caribbean.

Since 1997, Buddy has primarily represented individuals and corporations in far-reaching criminal investigations and prosecutions throughout the United States and internationally. He has also represented individuals in complex civil litigation. Mr. Parker has represented both public and private corporations, lawyers, accountants, corporate officers, bankers and other professionals in various mail and wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, healthcare fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, immigration, public corruption, commercial bribery, RICO and forfeiture investigations and prosecutions. He has also participated in investigations before the Serious Fraud Office (United Kingdom) and acted as a consultant to European lawyers in international matters.

Since 1996, Buddy has received the highest possible rating AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell reflecting his high level of legal ability and ethics. He also has for 20 years been chosen by his peers as a “Super Lawyer” in the area of white collar crime and general criminal defense.  Still further, he has also been selected as a “Best Lawyer” Of America.