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Motley Rice Founder Remembered As 'Titan' Of Mass Tort Bar

By Adrian Cruz

Motley Rice LLC co-founder Joseph F. Rice, who died suddenly this week, was remembered by former colleagues and friends as a "transformational" attorney and "giant in the civil litigation bar" who spent decades working on some of the most high-profile mass tort matters and obtaining landmark asbestos, opioid and tobacco settlements.

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