March 23, 2000 - Robert L. Parks, partner with the Coral Gables law firm Haggard & Parks, P.A., has been elected president of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers for 2000-2001. The group is limited to 500 practitioners in the United States and a select number abroad. Mr. Parks has served as the group's President-Elect, Vice President, Dean and Secretary of International Relations.

March 23, 2000 - Haggard & Parks partner Wm. Andrew Andy Haggard has been named chair of the State Chairs' Committee for the International Academy of Trial Lawyers for 2000-2001. He will oversee the Academy's state chairs throughout the United States.

Jan. 17, 2000 - Haggard & Parks partner Wm. Andrew Andy Haggard has been certified as a member of the Million Dollar Advocates' Forum. The group is limited to lawyers who have won more than $1 million in verdicts, awards, or settlements.

Nov. 24, 1999 - Haggard & Parks, P.A., was selected exclusive Florida counsel on behalf of Windows 95 and Windows 98 users in the class-action lawsuit against Microsoft.

July 11, 1999 - Michael Andrew Haggard, an associate with the Coral Gables law firm Haggard, Parks & Stone, has been elected secretary of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers.

June 9, 1999 - Haggard Parks & Stone achieved a $2 million settlement on behalf of restaurateur Bob Green, who was injured in July 1997 when a construction crew dropped a trailer while Mr. Green was inside. Associate Michael Haggard represented Mr. Green.

May 27, 1999 - A Dade Circuit Judge approved a $4 million settlement in a negligent security case against the owners of Hialeah's Park Plaza Hotel by the family of a Hialeah auto body painter and father of three who was robbed and beaten to death in the lot. Haggard Parks associate Michael Haggard represented the family, with co-counsel Alexis Izquierdo of Alexis Izquierdo, P.A., of Hialeah. The settlement is the highest kown negligent security settlement or verdict in Florida's history, according to