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Rick Jaklitsch is a nationally acclaimed personal injury trial lawyer. The BIG DOG himself has seemingly won every possible legal award that relies on the vote of judges who have seen Rick in action, or lawyers who have opposed Rick in court. Rick was one of the youngest attorneys in the country when he was first honored by Martindale-Hubbell with their coveted “AV Preeminent” rating of Personal Injury Trial Lawyers.  That honor put Rick in the top 1% of lawyers nationwide, and he has won that prestigious recognition every year since 1993. Martindale-Hubbell calls this AV rating “the pinnacle of professional excellence earned through a strenuous peer review rating process. It is the highest possible peer review rating in both legal ability and ethical standards”.

Rick has been honored by Who’s Who In American Law for over thirty (30) years. He’s been listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers every year since 1995 and was one of the very first lawyers in the entire country to obtain a perfect 10.0 rating for legal ability by the online rating service of AVVO.com. Rick has won “The Best Attorney Award” from Rue Rating’s Best Attorneys of America, and is prominently listed in the publication “Best Lawyers in America”. The National Trial Lawyers Association has listed Rick repeatedly as a Top 100 Lawyer, and the American Trial Lawyers Association has listed Rick as one of their Top 10 Lawyers year after year. The Trial Lawyers Board of Regent’s prestigious “Litigator Award” was awarded to Rick and The Jaklitsch Law Group, more than 1 million other lawyers who were considered for that amazing award.

Rick is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocate Forum and the Multi-Million Advocate Forum, which are called “The most prestigious group of trial lawyers in the United States”. Rick has been honored with a National “Top Ten” Ranking, every year since 2013 by the Nation’s Premier Group of Personal Injury Lawyers, the National Association of Personal Injury Attorneys, and won The Daily Record’s preeminent legal honor, its Leadership in the Law award.

Rick has personally handled hundreds of cases resulting in six and seven-figure awards for his clients, and has handled both multi-million dollar injury cases, and has sued insurance companies for as little as $23 in unpaid personal injury protection coverage on behalf of his clients. No case is too big or too small.

Rick has been honored by Super Lawyers Magazine in both Maryland and in the District of Columbia every single year since Super Lawyers began rating lawyers in those jurisdictions, and won the “Top Attorney” Award in Washington, D.C., and the “Top Attorney” Award in the State of Maryland, and has been deemed the “Face of Personal Injury Law” by What’s Up Magazine.

Rick was appointed to the Judicial Nominating Commission by Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich and sits on the Maryland State Bar Association’s Judicial Selections Committee, which interviews judicial applicants from every jurisdiction in the State of Maryland.

Rick has also been repeatedly honored for his non-legal work in our community. Rick won the Prince George’s County Bar Association’s esteemed President’s Award for “outstanding contributions to the Bar and to the community,” and was named a “Make-A-Wish Star” by the National Make-A-Wish Foundation for his tireless fundraising on behalf of Make-A-Wish, including raising the funds for eleven children to have one final wish granted.

Rick has won the Terrapin Club Lifetime Giving Award and sat on the Terrapin Club Board of Directors for almost 10 years. He served as President of the University of Maryland Terrapin Club, which provided scholarships for more than 700 athletes in 27 varsity Division 1 sports.   Rick raised millions of dollars for University of Maryland athletes before he was appointed by then head coach Randy Edsall to serve as President of the Maryland Gridiron Network, the fundraising arm of Maryland football. He also sat on the Board for Archbishop Spalding High School and the Board of Directors for the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame.

Prior to being a lawyer, Rick won the “Outstanding Leader of the Year” Award at the University of Maryland while an undergraduate, and was honored by Omicron Delta Kappa and the National Leadership Honor Society, which he led as President.

Rick’s practice is limited 100% to handling personal injury cases caused by the negligence of others in the car, truck, and train crashes. Rick is a proud member of the Maryland State Bar Association, the Anne Arundel Bar Association, the Prince George’s County Bar Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, and the Maryland Association for Justice. He served for many years on the Board of Directors for the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association.

He is married (over three decades and counting) to Judge Michele Jaklitsch of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County and is the proud father to Drew and David Jaklitsch.

Bar Admissions
Maryland, 1983
District of Columbia, 1986
U.S. District Court District of Maryland, 1984
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington, 1987
U.S. District Court Western District of Washington, 1987

Education
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland