Litigation Leaders Across the 'v': Motley Rice's Joe Rice on Childhood Dreams, Calculated Risks and Historic MDLs

'If we accept a case it is with the mindset that it is going in front of a jury, so we do the work to get it there. Sometimes in mass torts, you'll see some lawyers sit back and watch others do the work—Motley Rice lawyers don't do that. We are active in every litigation we are involved in.'

March 01, 2020 at 10:25 PM

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Jenna Greene
Editor and columnist at The Litigation Daily

Welcome to an occasional spin-off of our "Litigation Leaders" series, "Across the 'v,'" featuring the leaders of top plaintiffs-side firms.

Meet Motley Rice co-founder Joe Rice—though there's a good chance you know his name already. In 1998, Rice and his law partner, the late Ron Motley, along with Dickie Scruggs, brokered the $246 billion tobacco master settlement agreement—the largest civil settlement in U.S. history.

As one of the nation's largest plaintiffs' litigation firms, Motley Rice is currently front and center in the opioid MDL, as well as other complex cases.