Parks and Crump Quotable


Bar Admissions:

  • State of Florida

Practice Areas:

  • Personal Injury
  • Wrongful Death Litigation
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Nursing Home Neglect
  • Pharmaceutical Litigation

Education:

  • Florida State University School of Law
  • Florida A&M University, B.A. - Political Science/Economics

Memberships:

  • Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
  • Minority Caucus for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America
  • Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter National Bar Association
  • Tallahassee Barrister's Association
  • National Bar Association
  • Student Education and Admissions to the Bar Committee of the Florida Bar
  • Florida Bar Association

Attorney Profile

Daryl Parks is a founding and managing partner of Parks & Crump, LLC. He hails from Haines City, Florida, and attended Florida A&M University on a Presidential Scholarship. While there, Mr. Parks was the first Student Body President elected to two consecutive terms and founded the National Coalition of Black College Student Governments. In 1992, Mr. Parks was selected as Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity’s National College Brother of the Year and received his Bachelor degree in political science and economics. He graduated from the Florida State University College of Law in 1995 and had his first client only one day after being sworn into The Florida Bar.

After founding Parks & Crump law firm, Daryl Parks quickly established a reputation as a methodical businessman and relentless attorney. Over the years, he’s had several articles written about his extremely successful legal career. One Tallahassee Democrat article is entitled "Even With His Success, Attorney Parks Keeps Focus." The article brings up part of Mr. Parks inspiration for his work. It points out that "His mother’s death - after her insurance company refused to pay for a liver transplant – underscores the value he finds in his personal injury law practice." Mr. Parks explains, "It’s trial lawyers who challenge the big companies for the people who couldn’t mount that challenge on their own. Somebody has to hold those doctors and big companies accountable."

Attorney Parks is admitted to practice in the State of Florida, the Federal Courts for the Middle and Northern Districts of Florida and the United States Supreme Court. He has appeared for special purposes before courts in the states of Georgia, Maryland, Missouri and New Jersey.

Attorney Parks is on the Board of Directors for the Florida Justice Association (FJA) and the Bethel AME Community Development Corporation. He is a member of the Tallahassee Barristers and the American Bar Association. Attorney Parks is currently the Vice-President of Finance for the National Bar Association and has previously served its on board and as General Counsel. He is the past Chair of the Minority Caucus for the American Justice Association (AJA – formerly ATLA). He has also served on the board of the Florida Bar Foundation and the Florida Bar Admissions Committee.

Attorney Parks continues his commitment to serving his alma mater as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees for Florida A&M University and is a board member of the Florida A&M University (FAMU) Foundation, Inc. He is also the past Chair of the FAMU Boosters.

In the community, Attorney Parks is the Chairman of the board for the Leon County Sickle Cell Foundation and serves on the board for the Tallahassee Urban League.

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