John J. Rice

John Rice served as a federal prosecutor for over 15 years in offices throughout the country including the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

John J. Rice graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia. After law school, he was a judicial law clerk to the late United States District Court Judge Judith N. Keep of the Southern District of California.

Mr. Rice brings significant trial experience to Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, where he is a member of the Firm’s litigation team. In his time at the Firm, he has prosecuted complex securities cases and helped obtained recoveries for investors in numerous cases, including AOL Time Warner, HealthSouth, Forest Labs and Healthways.

Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Rice prosecuted a wide array of cases, ranging from complex white-collar criminal to murder to Russian organized-crime cases. Most recently, he worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of California, specializing in public corruption cases. He has also served stints prosecuting organized crime for the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York and was nominated to serve as Branch Chief in the Northern Mariana Islands, prosecuting public corruption and white-collar criminal cases. Mr. Rice has been praised for his diligent efforts to combat graft, corruption and collusion among public and private officials in San Diego and has received numerous awards from law enforcement agencies.

Mr. Rice has taught for many years and currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law.