Amanda K.Rice

Amanda Rice's practice focuses on appellate advocacy, critical motions, and difficult legal questions.

Amanda is a skilled brief writer with a sharp pen and a strategic eye. She has particular experience in the U.S. Supreme Court, where she has played a primary role in drafting many merits briefs, several successful petitions for certiorari, and a number of significant amicus briefs. She has also drafted scores of winning briefs filed in federal and state appellate courts. And she regularly provides briefing support to trial teams, where she is frequently successful in obtaining dismissals or other wins in important matters.

Amanda is also an accomplished oral advocate. She has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court; the First, Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits; and the Michigan and Georgia Supreme Courts.

Amanda's practice covers a broad range of substantive areas. She has particular experience with constitutional questions, complex statutory schemes, arbitration issues, and class actions. She regularly advises clients on these and other issues in both adversarial and non-adversarial contexts.

Amanda serves as the Detroit Office's pro bono partner and maintains an active pro bono practice that focuses on civil rights, criminal sentencing questions, LGBTQ issues, and immigration.

Amanda has taught legal writing at the University of Michigan Law School and firearms law at Wayne State Law School. She also served as a law clerk for Justice Kagan on the U.S. Supreme Court, for Judge Tatel on the D.C. Circuit, and for Judge Boasberg on the D.C. District Court.