Click to zoom Roger Parloff
Senior Editor (Legal Affairs)
FORTUNE

Roger Parloff is a senior writer at FORTUNE, where he covers a wide range of legal issues—from mass torts to intellectual property.

Formerly a practicing criminal litigation attorney in Manhattan, he has been a full-time journalist since 1988. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Lawyer, Inside.com, New York, Legal Affairs, Legal Times, and Spectrum. He has been a regular contributor to FORTUNE since 2002.

Parloff won a National Magazine Award in 1993 for a commentary in The American Lawyer magazine. His March 2002 FORTUNE article about the asbestos litigation crisis—“The $200 Billion Miscarriage of Justice”—was selected for inclusion in The Best Business Stories of the Year. Parloff is also the author of Triple Jeopardy (Little, Brown and Company, 1996), a non-fiction book about the death penalty.

He has a B.A. from Harvard and a J.D. from Yale Law School.