Richard A. Rice, Jr.

United States Attorney’s Office, N.D. Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia

Assistant United States Attorney:  Richard Rice was a federal prosecutor in the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. For five years, he investigated and prosecuted large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering organizations operating internationally and within the United States. Richard Rice supervised and coordinated national and international multi-jurisdictional and interagency investigations. 

U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
Washington, D.C.

Trial Attorney, Special Litigation Section:  Richard Rice worked on the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, the “twelfth hijacker.” He also 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:  Mr. Rice specialized in commercial litigation and products liability litigation, representing Fortune 50 companies in high-value civil litigation matters. 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 firm of over 1,000 attorneys and 19 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia, Richard Rice specialized in white collar criminal defense, commercial litigation and environmental litigation.

United States Navy, Judge Advocate General’s Corps
San Diego, California & Washington, D.C.

Lieutenant Commander:  While serving as an officer in the JAG Corps, Richard Rice achieved an acquittal rate of over 80% in contested cases.  This rate of success continued as Richard Rice next served as appellate defense counsel for defendants in the Navy and Marine Corps located 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.