Frederick R.(Rick) Hovde is a principal with Hovde Dassow & Deets LLC. He is a trial lawyer with an emphasis on medical negligence, automobile and truck accidents, construction site accidents, and injuries from dangerous consumer products, all on behalf of plaintiffs. He is Past President of the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association.

Rick was born in 1955 in Lafayette, Indiana. He received his B.B.A. in 1977 from Southern Methodist University and his J.D. in 1980 from Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. During law school, he was a member of Phi Delta Phi. He was admitted in 1980 to the Indiana bar.

Rick is listed in Best Lawyers in America, and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (membership is by invitation only and limited to 600 trial lawyers worldwide), Indiana College of Trial Lawyers, the Indianapolis Bar Foundation, and the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has served on the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association Board of Directors since 1990, the Executive Committee (1995 to 2003), and as President (2002-2003). He is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association (Director, Young Lawyers, 1986-1989), Indiana State Bar Association (Director, Young Lawyers, 1982-1986), and the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice and The American Board of Trial Advocates.

Rick has tried over 80 cases to a jury verdict and obtained maximum statutory verdicts in medical malpractice cases and several verdicts in excess of one million dollars in automobile accident, products liability and insurance bad faith cases.He has handled many significant and complex construction, products liability and accident and insurance claim cases.