Parker Stinar is a founding partner of Stinar Lannen and one of the country’s leading mass tort and class action lawyers. He builds and leads the kind of complex, high-stakes litigation most firms refer out — coordinated proceedings, multidistrict litigation, and class actions against some of the nation’s largest institutions — and he tries the cases others are content to settle. Across a practice spanning toxic torts, catastrophic injury, institutional abuse, and data privacy, Parker has litigated in more than 40 jurisdictions across the country and helped secure over $1.5 billion in global settlements for the people and communities he represents.
His approach rests on a simple conviction: clients are not case numbers. Whether he is standing before a jury on behalf of a single family or coordinating the recovery of tens of thousands of claimants, Parker brings the resources and sophistication of a national practice together with the preparation, creativity, and relentlessness that complex litigation demands — and, critically, the willingness to take a case all the way to verdict.
A Trial Lawyer First
Parker’s reputation was forged in the courtroom. He has first-chaired a dozen complex litigation matters and has tried cases to verdict in courtrooms across several states, the majority of them multi-week trials lasting three to six weeks, where he cross-examined science-based experts in some of the most technically demanding medical malpractice and birth injury cases in the country. That command of both the science and the courtroom produced results early: Parker won the first of his numerous multi-million dollar verdicts at just 30 years old, in a wrongful death medical malpractice matter. His trial record is what gives his clients leverage; opposing parties know he is prepared to try the case, not merely settle it.
Court-Appointed Leadership in Consolidated Litigation
Courts across the country have repeatedly recognized Parker’s judgment and skill by appointing him to leadership roles in the largest consolidated matters in the nation. His appointments include:
- JCCP 5276 (California Women’s Detention Center). Appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in the coordinated California proceeding, where Stinar Lannen represents more than 3,000 women subjected to abuse.
- In re Keffer Dev. Servs., LLC, Data Sec. Breach Litig., No. MDL 3159, 2025 WL 2327173 (U.S. Jud. Pan. Mult. Lit. Aug. 8, 2025). Serves as co-lead counsel of the multidistrict litigation consolidating the Doe v. Weiss cases, representing more than 150,000 students and student-athletes.
- Doe v. Henry Ford Health System and Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Corporation, No. 24-3733 (Macomb County Circuit Court). Appointed by the court as class action co-lead counsel, resolving in a $141 million settlement.
- Doe MC-1 v. The University of Michigan, No. 2:20-cv-10568-SJM-EAS (E.D. Mich.). Appointed to co-lead role in the Robert Anderson litigation, which resolved in a $490 million settlement.
Notable Litigation & Settlements
Northwestern University. Parker led and settled litigation against Northwestern University on behalf of 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 entrenched cultural abuses and elevated national awareness of sexual misconduct and exploitation in collegiate sports.
Dr. Fabio Ortega / Illinois Health Systems. Parker represented hundreds of survivors of sexual abuse by Dr. Fabio Ortega and led the litigation and settlement against several of Illinois’s largest healthcare systems, including NorthShore University HealthSystem, Swedish Covenant Hospital, and Endeavor Health. He coordinated and consolidated multiple actions, securing a joint trial order across the cases that strengthened survivors’ collective leverage and produced a substantial settlement.
California Juvenile Detention Facilities. Parker represents thousands of survivors of childhood sexual abuse in California’s county juvenile halls, probation camps, and youth detention facilities, where staff and others abused detained minors over a period of decades amid systemic failures to protect them.
Depo-Provera (MDL No. 3140). Parker represents several hundred women who allege that Pfizer’s Depo-Provera contraceptive injection caused them to develop meningioma brain tumors, and that the manufacturer failed to warn patients and physicians of the risk despite mounting scientific evidence. The cases are consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, where the parties reached a tentative global settlement in 2026.
Camp Lejeune. Parker represents several hundred victims of the water contamination at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, where for decades service members, their families, and civilian workers were exposed to toxic chemicals in the base’s drinking water. Brought under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, the claims seek compensation for cancers and other serious illnesses linked to the exposure.
A National Mass Tort Practice
Across these and other matters, Parker has served as lead counsel in more than $1 billion in settlements, personally recovered more than 200 individual settlements in excess of $1 million each, and signed master settlement agreements in cases resolving for $490 million, $350 million, $141 million, $70 million, and $37 million — in several instances as the only plaintiffs’ attorney, or the only attorney from his firm, to do so. In all, he has helped secure over $1.5 billion in global settlements for the clients and communities he represents.
In the National Media
As a nationally recognized trial lawyer and a frequent speaker on survivor advocacy and mass tort litigation, Parker has been interviewed and quoted in hundreds of domestic and international publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, People, Yahoo, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, and The Wall Street Journal. 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 SportsCenter, and the Dr. Phil Show.
Speaking Engagements & Publications
- Co-Chair, HarrisMartin’s Sexual Abuse Litigation Symposium (Napa Valley, CA, 2026)
- Speaker, HarrisMartin MDL Conference — Sex Abuse Litigation (Santa Fe, NM, 2025)
- Speaker, HarrisMartin MDL Conference — Sexual Abuse Litigation: Juvenile Detention Centers & 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 Springs, 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 — Takeaways from the $229 Million Birth Injury Verdict Against Johns 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)