Phyllis Maza Parker is a graduate of Yeshiva University (B.A. cum laude 1969), Columbia University (M.A. French Literature 1971), Boston University – Brussels, Belgium (M.S. in Management), and Temple University School of Law (J.D. cum laude 1995), where she was a member of the Temple Law Review and published a Note on the subject of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. After her first year of law school, Ms. Parker interned with the Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  Following graduation from law school, Ms. Parker served as law clerk to the Honorable Murray C. Goldman of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Since joining the Berger firm in September 1996, Ms. Parker has concentrated in complex securities class action litigation, representing both individual and institutional investors.  Among other cases, she has been on the litigation team in In re Xcel Energy, Inc. Securities Litigation ($80 million settlement, listed among the 100 largest securities class action settlements in the United States since the enactment of the 1933-1934 securities acts); In re Reliance Group Holdings, Inc. Securities Litigation ($15 million settlement); In re The Loewen Group, Inc. Securities Litigation ($6 million settlement); and In re Veeco Instruments Inc. Securities Litigation ($5.5 million settlement). She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as well as the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.