Fred Lauck is a 1969 graduate of the University of Detroit Law School, summa cum laude. He is a member of the Michigan and California State Bar associations. He has represented numerous lawyers and law firms on law firm split-up issues and obtained a $1.2 million jury verdict in one such case. He has also tried numerous criminal cases and personal injury, divorce and commercial cases. He has obtained several multimillion-dollar personal injury verdicts ranging from $2.4 million to $8.1 million, and in 2010 he secured a $2.35 million recovery. For a four year period from 2007 through 2010, in People v. Wade, he successfully challenged jury verdict forms being used by some judges and prosecutors that unconstitutionally forced jurors to find defendants guilty. As a result, those flawed, directed verdict forms have been officially banned as unconstitutional. In 2005, he was honored by his alma mater as the Urban Law Clinic’s Student for the Ages and in 2006, he was named Alumnus of the Year. He has also taught trial practice at the University of Detroit Mercy.