Occupation Lawyer Name C. Parker | Education Columbia Law School | |
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Alma mater Duke University (B.A)
University of Chicago (M.A)
Columbia Law School (J.D.) Known for Election to Presiding Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore; A leading U.S. banking and finance lawyer | ||
C. Allen Parker was the Presiding Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He currently serves as the General Counsel of Wells Fargo.
Early life and career
Allen Parker was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Duke University in 1977 and a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1980. He then earned a Juris Doctorate magna cum laude from Columbia Law School in 1983, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review. After graduating, Parker served in a clerkship with Amalya Lyle Kearse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Parker joined Cravath in 1984 and became a partner in 1990. He was elected Deputy Presiding Partner in October 2006. In January 2013, he became the firm's fifteenth Presiding Partner.