Biography
Christopher Parkerson has extensive trial experience in many states defending national and international corporations in product liability, commercial, intellectual property disputes, and large personal injury cases. Christopher's jury trial experience, combined with his work ethic and approach to the lawyer-client relationship assists him in advising clients on important issues including trial strategy and preparation.
Christopher received his undergraduate degree in International Studies, focusing on the Chinese and Japanese political systems from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. During Christopher's time at Rhodes, he was on the Dean’s List, a letterman on the varsity football team and was involved in various leadership positions on campus. Christopher attended law school at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR where he was on the Dean’s List, Moot Court and a representative on the Student Bar Association. Christopher also attended the University of Alabama Birmingham where he obtained an MBA.
After law school, Christopher joined his father's law firm in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He later joined a firm in Birmingham, Alabama, where he focused his practice on litigation and white-collar criminal defense, participating in many large-scale and high-profile cases and trials, including the defense of two sitting governors, a sitting sheriff, stock brokers, doctors, lawyers and CEOs. Christopher was an adjunct professor at Miles School of Law in Birmingham and a contributing author to the ADDENDUM. After the death of his firm’s founder, David Cromwell Johnson, Christopher opened his own litigation practice and continued to concentrate on trial work. Christopher was a frequent commentator on radio and television in Birmingham.
Since moving to Boston Christopher has focused on civil litigation. He has defended products cases ranging from small consumer appliances to large industrial electrical equipment in venues around the country. Christopher is a graduate of the International Association of Defense Counsel's 2009 Trial Academy, held at Stanford Law School in California, and of the National Trial Academy, a premier trial practice seminar held at the
National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, and sponsored by the American Bar Association's Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) and the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).
Christopher served as a faculty member of the International Association of Defense Counsel's 2014 Trial Academy at Stanford Law School. He is also a frequent speaker and author on issues such as trial advocacy, class actions, product liability and civil procedure.
Christopher is a past-president of the Downtown Boston Rotary Club and sits on the Board of the Downtown Boston Rotary Club Foundation. Christopher is married to Kimberly Parkerson, MD, PhD. Christopher, Kimberly and their three daughters live in West Roxbury, MA.
