Richard A. Rice, Jr.
U.S. Attorney’s Office, N.D. Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Assistant U.S. Attorney: Federal prosecutor in the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Investigated and prosecuted criminal organizations involved in drug trafficking and money laundering that were operating internationally and inside the U.S. Supervised and coordinated national and international investigations.
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
Washington, D.C.
Trial Attorney, Special Litigation Section: Worked on the prosecution of the "twelfth highjacker," Zacarias Moussaoui. Investigated and litigated civil enforcement actions against state and local police departments alleged to have engaged in civil rights abuses and state and local detention facilities alleged to have unconstitutional conditions of confinement.
Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Washington, D.C.
Attorney: Specialized in commercial litigation and products liability litigation, representing Fortune 50 companies in very high-dollar civil litigation cases. In one case, he served as the senior associate on the trial team defending an international company in a multi-billion dollar class action trial in federal court that resulted in a full defense verdict.
Hunton & Williams
Washington, D.C.
Attorney: In this law firm of over one-thousand attorneys and nineteen offices in the U.S., Asia and Europe, he specialized in white-collar criminal defense, environmental litigation and commercial litigation.
U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General’s Corps
San Diego, California & Washington, D.C.
Lieutenant Commander: While serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy JAG Corps, he achieved an acquittal rate of over 80% in cases that went to trial. This rate of success continued as Richard Rice next served as appellate counsel for defendants in the Navy and Marine Corps in cases throughout the world. In one case, he appealed the conviction and sentence of a Marine Corps senior non-commissioned officer who had been sentenced to over twenty years in prison. The conviction and sentence were overturned and then the Marine was then acquitted of all charges upon retrial.
Education
Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1994 Juris Doctorate
Honors: Managing Editor, Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy
Scholar, The Thomas J. White Center on Law & Government
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States, 1990 B.A.