Attorney and author Fred Lauck (center) was featured at a book-signing event hosted by the Detroit Bar Association on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at The Caucus Club in Detroit. Among those eager to get a signed copy of Lauck’s “The Fightin’ Irish of Detroit: Fightin’ in the Streets ... Fightin’ in the Courts (An American Story)” were (left to right) Carol Savage and Helen Ivory.
– Photo by John Meiu
Coming from a “Fightin’ Irish” bloodline and raised on Irish moxie, Fred Lauck, Detroit trial lawyer for five decades, has authored “The Fightin’ Irish of Detroit: Fightin’ in the Streets ... Fightin’ in the Courts (An American Story).” In his new book, Lauck chronicles the legal landscape of Detroit over the 20th century and into the 21st century.
The 368-page book highlights Detroit’s legal history with true stories in the trenches of life and law. It features a list of 1,000 alphabetically indexed names woven together by the best tradition of Irish storytelling. It is available on Amazon.com, iTunes, Kindle and Nook devices, or at www.fredlauck.com.
Lauck, a “street fighter” by instinct, a storyteller by trade and a trial lawyer by profession, covers the waterfront as he pulls back the curtain on a cast of Wizard of Oz-like characters – from Wall Street bankers to Detroit street gang members, from corporate CEOs to mass murderers, from Hall of Fame athletes to Hall of Shame pharmaceutical manipulators, from legit entrepreneurs to ill-legit “blind-pig” operators, from President Lincoln to President Trump, and from Mona Lisa’s to Mad Hatters.
Lauck was born and raised in Detroit. He graduated from St. Scholastica Grade School, a product of Dominican Nuns; graduated from Detroit Catholic Central High School, a product of Basilian Priests; and earned an NCAA football scholarship and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and chemistry at the University of Detroit (now Detroit Mercy), a product of Jesuit education. He later earned his law degree at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and is a member of the Michigan and California bars. He was recognized as the State Bar “Champion of Justice” in 2012. He was inducted in the Detroit Catholic Central Athletic Hall of Fame and has been named Alumnus of the Year at Catholic Central and Detroit Mercy Law School.
Before a four-decade career as sole-practitioner trial lawyer, Lauck was an assistant prosecutor in Wayne County and a trial attorney at Plunkett Cooney.
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