Zachary Parks advises corporations, trade associations, campaigns, political parties, and high-net worth individuals on their most important and challenging election and political law problems.

At the federal level, Mr. Parks' expertise includes the Federal Election Campaign Act, the Lobbying Disclosure Act, the Ethics in Government Act, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s pay-to-play rules. He has also helped clients comply with the election and political laws of all 50 states.

Mr. Parks routinely advises corporations and corporate executives on instituting political law compliance programs and conducts compliance training for senior corporate executives and lobbyists. He also has extensive experience conducting corporate internal investigations concerning campaign finance and lobbying law compliance and has defended his political law clients in investigations by the Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and in litigation.

During the 2012 election cycle, Mr. Parks served as one of the original members of the Romney for President, Inc. volunteer legal team. He is also the founder and chair of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society’s Political and Election Law Section.

Mr. Parks also has extensive complex litigation experience, having litigated major environmental claims, class actions, and multi-district proceedings for financial institutions, corporations, and public entities.

From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Parks was a law clerk for Judge Thomas B. Griffith on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.