Barry Lakritz
Founder and Senior Partner | Lakritz Law
Barry Lakritz is a trucking accidents, car accidents and personal injury trial lawyer and founder and senior partner of Lakritz Law in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Admitted in Michigan and Arizona; J.D., Wayne State University Law School.
Meet Barry
Barry F. Lakritz is the founder and senior partner of Lakritz Law in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a father-daughter firm that represents people hurt in trucking and car crashes, dog attacks and other injury cases, including Michigan auto no-fault claims.
Lakritz graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wayne State University and earned his law degree with honors from Wayne State University Law School. He was a principal partner at Ulanoff, Ross, Summer & LaKritz, P.C., before leaving in 1982 to open his own practice. He has particular experience with liquor liability claims arising from car and truck crashes, works as a trial attorney, mediator, arbitrator and facilitator in counties across Michigan, and was once appointed by the presiding judge of the Oakland County Circuit Court as a special master in complex multiparty civil litigation. He is licensed in Michigan and Arizona and is admitted before the U.S. Supreme Court.
A longtime member of the American Association for Justice and the Michigan Association for Justice, he has spoken often at the Michigan Association for Justice No-Fault Automobile Insurance Institute seminar. He was inducted into the Michigan Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame in 2026 and has been named a Michigan Super Lawyer for 21 consecutive years.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Admitted to practice in Michigan
- Admitted to practice in Arizona
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Wayne State University, Phi Beta Kappa
- Wayne State University Law School, with honors
Practice Areas
- American Association for Justice
- Michigan Association for Justice
- Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America
- Detroit Bar Association
- Oakland County Bar Association
- Macomb County Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Michigan Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame, 2026
- Michigan Super Lawyers, 21 consecutive years
- Best Lawyers in America, 2025 (16th consecutive year)
- The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Trial Lawyers, 2025
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent, 2025 (37 consecutive years)
- Leading Lawyers, 2025
- Top 50 Lawyers in America, 2025
- National Association of Distinguished Counsel
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