Kyle Parker is the Deputy Director of Crowell and Moring, based in Alaska. Kyle counsels clients in the energy and natural resource industries with issues related to project permitting and complex litigation. He has specific experience in securing and defending workable state and federal environmental authorisations for major resource development and energy projects. Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Kyle was a partner with Patton Boggs LLP. Before entering private practice, he served as an assistant attorney general in the oil, gas and mining section of the Alaska Department of Law; he was an aide to then U.S. Senator Frank H. Murkowski; and he worked in the Executive Office of the President, Council on Environmental Quality, during President George H.W. Bush's Administration. He also served as a law clerk at the United States Court of Federal Claims.