Parker Stinar is a Founding Partner of Stinar Lannen, PLLC. A relentless advocate for justice, Parker has dedicated his career to representing clients in high-stakes cases involving sexual abuse, toxic torts, catastrophic injury, medical negligence, and institutional failures. He has litigated cases in more than 40 jurisdictions across the country, including in Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, and California, earning a reputation as a formidable trial lawyer and a trusted voice for survivors.

Parker has played a central role in securing over $1.5 billion in global settlements, including serving as Lead Counsel in more than $1 billion in settlements for survivors of sexual abuse. Highlighted victories include global settlements of $490 million (Court-Appointed Leadership), $350 million as lead counsel (only plaintiff’s attorney to sign master settlement agreement), $141 million (Court-Appointed Lead Counsel), $70 million (only attorney from his firm to sign master settlement agreement), and $37 million. He has personally recovered more than 200 individual settlements in excess of $1 million. He is widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading attorneys holding powerful institutions accountable for enabling sexual predators.

Parker currently serves as Co-Lead Counsel in Jane Doe v. Weiss et al., an MDL case in the Eastern District of Michigan arising from allegations against former University of Michigan football coach Matthew Weiss. Mr. Stinar filed the first complaint, and all related cases have since been consolidated under his lead. The case involves claims that Weiss illegally accessed student-athletes’ email, social media, and cloud storage accounts to download and sell explicit images and videos, all while using University-issued credentials and made possible because of systemic failures in the University’s computer network. Representing more than 150,000 current and former female student-athletes, Parker leads one of the largest privacy and Title IX-related data breach class actions in the country. His leadership has drawn national attention, including an appearance on Good Morning America, underscoring his commitment to holding powerful institutions accountable in complex, high-stakes litigation.

Parker, appointed Co-Lead Counsel, recently settled a high-profile class action lawsuit against Henry Ford Health Corporation for more than $141 million, representing former patients of a now-incarcerated former physician for secretly videotaping patients during sensitive medical procedures. Widely covered by national media, this litigation highlights Parker’s role as one of the country’s foremost advocates for institutional accountability in healthcare, advancing justice for vulnerable patients and reaching large settlements for survivors of systemic neglect.

Parker led and settled litigation against Northwestern University, representing student-athletes who endured sexual abuse, hazing, and racial discrimination within the school’s athletic programs. Through multiple lawsuits against the university and key leadership—including former head coach Pat Fitzgerald—Parker helped expose cultural abuses and elevated national awareness surrounding sexual misconduct and exploitation in collegiate sports.

Parker represented hundreds of survivors of sexual abuse by Dr. Fabio Ortega in litigation against several of Illinois’s largest healthcare systems, including NorthShore University HealthSystem, Swedish Covenant Hospital, and Endeavor Health. He coordinated and consolidated multiple actions, achieving a joint trial order across various cases result that strengthened survivors’ collective leverage and resulted in a large settlement.

Parker served on the court-appointed Plaintiff Leadership Team in John Doe v. University of Michigan, a historic case involving over 1,000 male survivors of abuse by former university physician Dr. Robert Anderson. Representing more than 200 survivors—the largest number of any single firm—Parker helped secure a record-breaking $490 million global settlement, the largest known recovery for male survivors of sexual abuse in U.S. history.

Parker previously represented survivors of disgraced physician Larry Nassar litigation, which settled for $380 million by USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee. His advocacy helped secure accountability and financial recovery for hundreds of survivors, establishing him as a national leader in institutional abuse litigation.

Parker has been featured by The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, and major national broadcasts including Good Morning America, NBC, CBS, and CNN. He is a frequent national speaker on survivor advocacy and mass tort litigation.

Publications, Speaking Engagements & Legal Presentations

  • Speaker, Harris Martin MDL Conference; Sex Abuse Litigation (Santa Fe, NM, 2025)
  • Speaker, Harris Martin MDL Conference; Sexual Abuse Litigation; Juvenile Detention Center & Youth Residential Treatment Centers (Boise, ID 2025)
  • Speaker, Angeion Group Mega Summit; Managing Complexities in Mass Tort Work Flows: Strategies, Systems and Solutions for High-Volume Litigation (Santa Monica, CA 2025)
  • Speaker, Lawyer Growth Summit; Mastering Torts, Market Shifts, and More: The Playbook for Expansion (Las Vegas, NV 2025)
  • Speaker, Chicago Bar Association, Practice Basics: Business Development & Growing Your Network (Chicago, IL 2023)
  • Speaker, Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, Representing Survivors of Sex Abuse (Steamboat, CO 2021)
  • Speaker, American Association for Justice, Making Your Pulmonary Embolism Case & Applying Evidence Based Medicine (New Orleans, LA 2020)
  • Moderator, American Association for Justice, Takeaway from the 229 Million Dollar Birth Injury Verdict Against John Hopkins, (2019)
  • Speaker, Detroit Bar Association, Anatomy of Civil Damages (Detroit, MI 2019)
  • Speaker, American Association for Justice, Deposing Medical Experts in Personal Injury Cases – Using Hypotheticals, Metaphors, and Analogies (2017)
  • Speaker, Western Michigan University School of Law, Expert Witnesses: From Selection to Presentation (2016)

Media Appearances

As a nationally recognized trial lawyer, Parker has been interviewed and quoted in hundreds of domestic and international newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, People, Yahoo, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, and Wall Street Journal. Additionally, he has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, Fox News, CNN Headline News, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News, National Public Radio, ESPN and Sports Center, and the Dr. Phil Show.