Motley Rice LLC
30 The Best Lawyers in America® awards
18 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards
Visit Best Law Firms profile for Motley Rice LLC Visit Website Motley Rice is one of the nation’s largest plaintiffs’ litigation firms. For decades, our firm has upheld our deep commitment to advocate for consumers, workers, investors and families fighting for justice for those harmed. Founding members Ron Motley and Joe Rice worked together for more than 30 years.
Our attorneys have litigated some of the most significant cases in U.S. court backed by our extensive experience and ample resources- asbestos, tobacco, financiers of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the entire opioid supply chain.
With more than 130 attorneys and hundreds of staff, the firm continues to represent consumers against wrongdoing and negligence through the use of the American civil justice system. We handle individual cases, consolidated trials, multidistrict litigation and class actions in cases involving: aviation and transportation disasters; catastrophic injury; environmental contamination; anti-terrorism and human rights violations; defective medical drugs and devices; securities fraud; consumer fraud; antitrust; qui tam/whistleblower; media and tech; and occupational diseases such as mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases.
Visit www.motleyrice.com for detailed information about our culture, our teams and our mission- Causes, Not Just Cases®.
- Airplane Collision
- All Types of Serious or Catastrophic Personal Injury Claims
- Antitrust Law
- Aviation Law
- Catastrophic Injury and Wrongful Death
- Civil Litigation
- Civil Rights Law
- Class Action Litigation
- Complex Civil Litigation
- Consumer Protection Law
- Defective Products and Products Liability
- Defrauded Investors
- Derivative Suits
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Litigation
- ERISA
- False Claims Act Litigation
- Federal Tort Claims
- FELA
- Fires
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Fraud and Abuse
- FTC
- General Aviation
- General Premises Liability
- Guild & Union Issues
- Health and Pension Funds
- Health Care Fraud
- Health-Care Fraud and Abuse
- Helicopter Crash Litigation
- Injured Workers
- Internet and Web 2.0
- Investors
- Jury Trials
- Land Contamination
- Large Case Litigation
- Litigation
- Litigation - Antitrust
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Litigation - Environmental
- Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions
- Litigation - Securities
- Litigation for Individuals
- Local Counsel
- Mass Tort
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
- Medical Device Claims and Recalls
- Mental Health
- Military
- Military Aviation
- Multi-Jurisdictional
- Music
- Negligence
- Negotiation
- New Media
- Occupational Disease
- Pension, Health and Welfare
- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
- Plaintiffs
- Plaintiffs Class Actions
- Privacy and Security Breach Litigation
- Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Qui Tam Law
- Qui Tam/False Claims Act
- Railroad Law
- Securities - Litigation
- Securities Fraud
- Sexual Abuse
- Social And Digital Media Law
- Taft-Hartley Plans
- Technology
- Third-Party Claims
- Toxic Exposure/Toxic Tort
- Transportation Law
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Trial Consulting
- Trials
- Trucking Litigation
- Unfair Deceptive Trade Practices
- Workplace Injuries
Takata Can Extend Airbag Lawsuit Freeze for Individuals
by Motley Rice
The Delaware bankruptcy judge presiding over the Takata case on Monday granted the debtors’ request to extend the freeze on lawsuits connected to its dangerously defective airbag inflators through late February for individual claims, but will revisit a stay on state enforcement actions in 30 days.
Justice Gorsuch’s Strange Detour in Alien Tort Statute Case
by Motley Rice
Justice Neil Gorsuch wasn’t a member of the U.S. Supreme Court back in 2004, when the justices ruled in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain (124 S.Ct. 2739) that in certain limited circumstances, foreign nationals can use a 1789 law, the Alien Tort Statute, to sue in U.S. courts for violations of the law of nations.
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