About Robert Akouri, Attorney in
Livonia, Michigan
I have practiced law in Metro Detroit since 1990, based in Livonia, across criminal defense, personal injury, family law, civil litigation, business and transactional law, and insurance defense.
Admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 1990.
Livonia office at 18306 Middlebelt Rd.
Thirty-six years in Metro Detroit, from Livonia and Farmington
Hi, I'm Robert Akouri.
I was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 1990 and I have practiced in Metro Detroit ever since. I started out on the insurance defense side, which taught me how the other half of a case is built and argued, and that has been useful to me every year since. From there I joined a firm handling criminal defense, divorce, and personal injury, and I learned the full spectrum of the work there before I went out on my own.
I have been in the same courthouses for thirty-six years, 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 anyone can check.
My clients have never come from advertising. They come from people I have helped before, and from attorneys who have seen my work in court and were willing to put their own client's name on a referral to me. That is a harder way to build a practice and it is the only way I have ever wanted to build one. We do good work.
Admitted 1990:
Michigan and the
Eastern District
I was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 1990. I am also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. I earned my law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy.
I appear regularly in the circuit and district courts of Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Monroe, and Livingston counties, and in federal court in the Eastern District. Thirty-six years in, local practice differences between one county and the next are something I already know rather than something I learn on your case.
- State Bar of Michigan, admitted 1990
- United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
- Law degree, University of Detroit Mercy
How I Work With Clients
My job is to make you as smart about your own case as I am. Not to impress you with it, and not to talk over you. If you understand what is actually happening, you can make the decisions that are yours to make, and in this practice the final decision is always yours.
I will tell you where you stand before I tell you what I can do about it. That includes the parts you were hoping not to hear. An honest read on a bad position is worth more to you than an optimistic one, because it is the only kind you can plan around.
Bring me the situation as it actually is, including the parts you would rather not say out loud. Then I will tell you plainly what happens next.
"Take the best shot, shake a hand, keep a promise, show up on time, perform hard work for your client."
When You Need Someone
to Show Up
Years ago, I sat in jail while a client's bond hearing was going on. I'm willing to do what it takes to address a client's concerns, including sitting in jail to protect the client's interests.
It was not a strategy. It was that being there was the part of the job that mattered that day, and the fact that it was unusual says more about the practice of law than it does about me.
Thirty-six years later that is still the standard I hold myself to. What I promise is that I will be there, that I will do the work, and that you will hear the real state of your case from me at every stage.
Six Practice Areas, One Attorney
I handle criminal defense, personal injury, family law, civil litigation, business and transactional law, and insurance defense, all from my Livonia office.
That range is not a menu. It is what thirty-six years of a general Metro Detroit practice actually looks like. A client who comes to me for a drunk driving charge and later needs a divorce, or an injury claim, or a contract reviewed for a business they are buying, does not have to go find a second attorney and start explaining themselves from the beginning.
If there is a specific set of circumstances I cannot align with, I will tell you so in the first conversation rather than have you learn it at your own expense.
Why Clients and Attorneys
Send People Here
Most of the people who call me were sent by someone they trust. Sometimes that is a former client. Often it is another attorney who has been across the table from me and knows what I bring to a case. If you were referred here, that referral carries weight, and I take it seriously.
You will not find my face on a bus shelter or in a late-night television spot. I have never wanted the kind of practice that is built that way. A firm built on advertising is built to move volume, and volume work needs to be handed down to somebody. I built a smaller practice on purpose, so that the attorney you meet is the attorney who shows up.
What that means for you is practical rather than sentimental. Your call does not get triaged. Your file does not get passed along. Nobody has to be brought up to speed on your situation twice.
"I'd like my work to vouch for itself."
My office is in Livonia, Michigan
My office is in Livonia, Michigan, at 18306 Middlebelt Rd, and I also have a second office in Farmington. I appear regularly in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Monroe, and Livingston counties, and in federal court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
I know these courthouses. I know which local practices 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).
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. If it is not something I handle, I will say that too.