With over thirty years experience as a criminal defense attorney, Jim Parkman received national recognition as part of the legal team that represented and successfully defended former HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy against securities fraud charges.

The first lawyer to try a case under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Parkman is a confidant white-collar attorney whose legal skills have been presented in American Lawyer Magazine, law.com and The National Law Journal.

He has appeared on Fox News and CNBC and has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, NBC News-Los Angeles, ABC News-New York, The Washington Post, Forbes, USA Today, US News & World Report, the Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Journal, CNN.com, and CNN.Money.

A graduate of the University of Alabama, Jim obtained his Juris Doctor with honors from Cumberland Law School where he was awarded the distinguished Achievement Award from the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court of the Middle District, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District. Jim is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, and a member of the Masters of the Bench. He has also been listed in Who's Who in Executives and Professionals.

University of Alabama, B.S. Degree, 1974 in Business Administration
Cumberland Law School, J.D. 1979 (Cum Laude)

• National Dean's list 1978-1979
• International Academy of Trial Lawyers-Distinguished Achievement Award-1978-1979
• Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity 1977
• Admitted to the United States District Court for the Middle District 1979
• Admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit 1982
• Admitted to the United States District Court for the Southern District 1985
• Member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers since 1987
• Member of the Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association since 1994
• Member of the Masters of the Bench 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
• Who's Who in Executives and Professionals-1979,1995, 1997 and 1999

• USA v. Scrushy-one of the nation's largest corporate fraud cases
• USA v. Scallio-a drug kingpin case in Baltimore, Maryland which was characterized as the biggest drug dealer on the East Coast.
• USA v. Maddox, Time magazine called this the fifth largest drug case in the United States at that time.
• USA v. Dr. Fred Williams, one of North Florida's largest doctor fraud criminal cases.
• Odom, et al v. Sheriff of Houston County, Alabama
• numerous other state and felony cases

• Dothan Rotary Club-member
• Dothan Boy's Club- Board of Director
• American Heart Association-member
• South Alabama Cripple Children's Clinic-Treasurer-Board of Director

• "One Hell of an attorney" Neil Cavuto, Fox News
• "The Greatest Lawyer on the planet" Neil Cavuto, Fox News
• "[A] jurors' lawyer that can win big trials" www.scrushy-report.com
• "Some say they did the impossible!" The Jere Beasley Report, August, 2005
• "The defense lawyers in the Scrushy case clearly took the government's lawyers to the woodshed!" The Jere Beasely Report, August, 2005
• "[the Scrushy case] was also a mismatch of legal talent." The Jere Beasley Report, August, 2005
• "Against the odds, Scrushy walks out of court a free man." Greg Farrell, USA Today
• "Jurors, Spectators glued to Parkman's closing" Lance Griffin, Dothan Eagle
• "Parkman's bold tactics, jury skills take center stage." Russ Hubbard, Birmingham, AL
• "Dothan lawyers gets last laugh in Scrushy case" Lance Griffin, Dothan Eagle