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 leads legal strategy and substantive motion practice in trial courts.

Amanda is also an accomplished oral advocate. She has twice argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, most recently in April 2025 in Parrish v. United States. She has also argued in the First, Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits, as well as in the Michigan and Georgia Supreme Courts.

Amanda's practice covers a broad range of substantive areas, but she has particular experience with constitutional questions, complex statutory schemes, arbitration issues, and class actions.

Amanda serves as the Detroit Office's pro bono partner and maintains an active pro bono practice that focuses on civil rights, 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 Elena Kagan on the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge David S. Tatel on the D.C. Circuit, and Judge James E. Boasberg on the D.C. District Court.