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 frequently plays a primary role in drafting merits briefs, petitions for certiorari, and amicus briefs. Amanda also has drafted hundreds of winning briefs filed in federal and state appellate courts across the country. And she regularly leads legal strategy and substantive motion practice in trial courts.

Amanda is also an accomplished oral advocate. She argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in both Parrish v. United States and Lange v. California. She also has 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 is co-chair of the Firm's LGBTQ+ Affinity Group. She also serves as the Detroit Office's pro bono partner and maintains her own active pro bono practice.

Amanda previously 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.