Parker White

Parker White joined Arnold Law Firm in 2024, bringing decades of courtroom experience and a reputation as one of the most respected trial lawyers in the Sacramento and Northern California legal community. His career has been defined by jury trials in complex, high-exposure cases, particularly in catastrophic personal injury and medical malpractice litigation.

While Parker’s practice has focused primarily on personal injury and medical malpractice, his extensive trial experience also plays a critical role in the firm’s employment law practice. He works alongside Arnold Law Firm’s employment team to try complex employment cases that require seasoned courtroom leadership and jury advocacy.

Parker was born in New Haven, Connecticut, but moved to California when his father, a best-selling novelist, was granted a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. Parker attended high school at Woodside High School, where he was involved in theater, three varsity sports and was president of the student body. He went on to receive his bachelor’s degree in English from Colorado State University, where he led his rugby team to championships in the PABST Cup, the Coors Cup and the Notre Dame Invitational. He then attended University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law, where he earned a spot on the trial advocacy competition team and placed third in the American College of Trial Lawyers’ national trial competition.

In 1991, Parker was elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). Since that time, he has been involved in continuing legal education programs for lawyers. In 2000, he was a moderator and organizer of the ABOTA Masters in Trial, Trial Notebook, which was the most heavily attended such program in California history. In 2001, he organized and moderated the Mock Trial Presentation of ABOTA. Again, it was the most heavily attended such program in California history. In 2003, Parker was honored by ABOTA at its Sacramento Chapter before judges and attorneys, as its recipient of the Civility Award, given to the attorney who bests exemplifies professionalism and civility in the advocacy of his clients’ interests. In 2011, Parker was again honored by ABOTA as Trial Lawyer of the Year. At the time, he was the only member to receive the Civility Award and the Trial Lawyer of the Year.

Parker is also a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only organization limited to 500 trial lawyers in the United States, and a member of the International Society of Barristers. Since 1994, he has served as a visiting faculty member at Stanford University Law School and University of San Francisco Law School, teaching in the schools’ trial advocacy programs.