Rick Zurz

Rick Zurz is a co-founder and managing partner of Slater & Zurz LLP, an Ohio personal injury firm based in Akron. He represents people hurt in car, truck and motorcycle crashes and other serious accidents, along with families in wrongful death cases, and he stays involved in the firm’s cases as its managing partner.

Zurz began practicing law in 1982 and, according to the firm, has handled thousands of matters in personal injury, wrongful death, commercial litigation and mass torts. He has represented clients in Ohio state and federal courts, including the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio and the Eastern District of Michigan, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. His father and grandfather both served as judges.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University and earned both his law degree and a Master of Taxation from the University of Akron. He belongs to the Akron Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Ohio Association for Justice and the American Association for Justice. He has coached youth and high school baseball and is an avid cyclist.