Hi, I'm Robert Akouri. I've been practicing law right here in Metro Detroit since 1990, and I handle every case at Akouri Law personally: no associates, no handoffs.
My main office is in Livonia, and when you work with me, you work with me directly. One attorney. One phone number. One relationship.
I won't promise results, but I will give you an honest assessment and fight to improve your odds. That's what we call the 30 to 85 standard. We do good work.
Robert Akouri
Founder, Akouri Law
36 Years in Metro Detroit Courts, Admitted 1990
I was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 1990 and have practiced in Metro Detroit courts for 36 years. I earned my law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy.
I am also admitted to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Thirty-six years on, I am still in the same courthouses, in front of many of the same judges, across the table from many of the same attorneys. That is not a marketing claim. It is a record you can check.
You will not find my face on a bus shelter or in a late-night television spot. My work has come from people I have helped before, and from attorneys who know what I bring to a case.
- Admitted to the State Bar of Michigan, 1990
- Admitted to the United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
Six Practice Areas, One Metro Detroit Attorney
I handle criminal defense, personal injury, family law, civil litigation, business and transactional law, and insurance defense from my Livonia, Michigan office. Not passed to an associate.
Criminal Defense
Straight Answers Before You Say a Word to Anyone Else
Felonies, misdemeanors, and everything that starts with a phone call you did not want to make. I have spent thirty-six years in Metro Detroit courtrooms, and I will tell you exactly where you stand before I tell you what I can do. No inflated promises, an honest read on your odds and a clear plan to improve them.
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Personal Injury
I Handle the Claim So You Can Focus on Getting Better
Auto accidents and no-fault claims. Insurance companies have their own timeline and their own interests, mine are yours. I handle the claim end to end so your attention stays where it belongs, on recovering, not fighting paperwork.
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Family Law
Explained in Plain Language, Moved at a Pace Your Family Can Absorb
Divorce, custody, and parenting time. I have sat across from enough families going through this to know it is never just a legal matter, it is your life being reorganized. I treat it that way, plain language, no jargon, no rushing you past decisions that matter.
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Civil Litigation
A Straight Read on
What's Worth Pursuing
Contract and business disputes. Litigation is expensive and slow by design, and my job before anything else is to tell you honestly whether a fight is worth having before you commit to one.
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Business and Transactional Law
One Attorney Who Already
Knows Your Business
When You Call
Formation, contracts, and the day-to-day counsel a working business actually picks up the phone about. You do not need a legal department, you need one attorney who already knows your business when you call.
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Insurance Defense
Thirty-Six Years of Knowing
How These Cases Actually
Get Decided
Auto negligence and premises liability defense. Thirty-six years of courtroom experience means I know how these cases actually get decided, not just how they read on paper.
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Need to Know
If someone gave you my name, you are probably reading this at a bad hour, and you want to know three things before you dial: that I am real, that I am reachable, and that I have done this before.
When you call Akouri Law, our front office answers first, and then I call you back myself, not an associate or an intern.
I am a practicing attorney based in Livonia, Michigan, admitted in 1990. Bring me the situation as it actually is, including the parts you would rather not say out loud, and I will tell you plainly what happens next.
Have Bar Card, Will Travel
Akouri Law is based in Livonia, Michigan, and I appear every week in the courts of the greater Detroit Metro area, including Wayne, Oakland, Washtenaw, Monroe, and Macomb counties. My license is good everywhere in this state. If your case is somewhere I don't appear every week, all the way up into the Upper Peninsula, that is not an obstacle. Have bar card, will travel.
In the counties where I am every week, I know the courthouses and the local practices that vary from one county to the next, which is the sort of thing that costs people time and money when their attorney is learning it on their case. I know the people who work in them, because I have been working alongside them for thirty-six years.
Detroit Metro Area
Wayne County
Washtenaw County
Monroe County
Macomb County
Oakland County
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Detroit skyline (Detroit Metro Area) by TheWxResearcher (CC BY 4.0); Wayne County Building by Joshuay04, Washtenaw and Monroe County Courthouses by Charles W. Chapman, Macomb County Administration Building by WeaponizingArchitecture, and Oakland County Sheriff's Office by 42-BRT (all CC BY-SA 4.0).
The 30 to 85 Standard
I do not guarantee case outcomes. I commit to improving a client's odds, and to stating those odds honestly at every stage.
Nobody honest can guarantee you a result. What I can tell you is roughly where your odds sit when you walk in, and what I believe I can do to move them.
If you come to me at thirty percent likelihood of success, my job is to get you toward eighty-five percent likelihood of success. Sometimes that means trial. Often it means the quieter work that happens long before anyone sees a courtroom. Either way, you hear the real percentages from me.
Boutique Representation, Not a Volume Law Firm
Akouri Law is a boutique practice where I'm the sole named attorney on every case.
A high-volume firm is built to move files. I built this practice to handle a smaller number of cases properly, which is why the attorney you meet is the attorney who shows up.
It means I take fewer cases than a firm with a billboard budget. It also means your call does not get triaged, your file does not get handed down, and nobody has to be brought up to speed on your situation twice. We do good work, and the attorneys who send me clients know exactly what they are sending them into.
Robert Akouri, Attorney: Your Questions Answered
Robert Akouri is a Metro Detroit attorney who has practiced law since being admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 1990, thirty-six years across criminal defense, personal injury, family law, civil litigation, business and transactional law, and insurance defense. He is the attorney at Akouri Law, based in Livonia, Michigan, and handles every case personally rather than passing it to an associate. His practice has grown almost entirely through referrals from past clients and other attorneys rather than advertising: no bus shelter ads, no late-night commercials, just a record other attorneys are willing to put their own clients' names on.
When you call Akouri Law, you first speak with Robert Akouri's professional front office staff, and you then get a call back from Robert directly, not an associate or an intern. The person who returns your call is the same person who will actually handle your matter.
Akouri Law is based in Livonia, Michigan, and also has an office in Farmington. It serves Wayne, Oakland, Washtenaw, Monroe, and Macomb counties, and takes cases anywhere in Michigan, including the Upper Peninsula. Robert Akouri has practiced in these Metro Detroit courts for thirty-six years, so the firm's service area reflects where he actually appears in court regularly, not a marketing radius drawn on a map.
Robert Akouri handles six areas of law from his Livonia, Michigan office: criminal defense, personal injury, family law, civil litigation, business and transactional law, and insurance defense. Every case in each of these areas is handled by him personally, not divided out to different attorneys or associates.
Yes, Akouri Law offers a free initial consultation. Callers can reach the Livonia office and tell the front office what happened, and Robert Akouri will call back himself to say plainly whether he can help and what the next step looks like.
Ready to Talk? Call Akouri Law Now
Akouri Law offers a free initial consultation.
Call the Livonia office, tell me what happened, and I will tell you plainly whether I can help and what the next step looks like.
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