Amanda K.Rice

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

Amanda is a skilled brief writer with particular experience in the U.S. Supreme Court. She has played a primary role in drafting many Supreme Court merits briefs, as well as several successful petitions for certiorari. She has also drafted scores of winning briefs filed in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, state appellate courts, and trial courts across the country. And she regularly provides strategic advice and briefing support to trial teams 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. As the Detroit Office's pro bono partner, Amanda coordinates the office's pro bono efforts and maintains her own active pro bono practice, with a focus on civil rights, 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 judicial clerk at all three levels of the federal judiciary, clerking first for Judge Boasberg on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, then for Judge Tatel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and finally for Justice Kagan on the U.S. Supreme Court.