About Amy

Amy Hallman Rice has a general corporate transactional practice, and represents both privately-held and public companies in a wide range of transactions. Amy also has more than 16 years of experience in bankruptcy and insolvency law.

Prior to rejoining Cooley, she practiced with Dorsey & Whitney's commercial and banking/bankruptcy practice group in Minneapolis, Minnesota for more than nine years, and taught legal writing at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1992-1993.

While at the University of Virginia School of Law, she was the winner of the multi-round William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition.

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Admissions and credentials

  • California

Education

  • University of Virginia School of Law
    JD, 1988
  • University of California, San Diego
    BA, Literature, Writing, magna cum laude, 1984

Court admissions

  • US District Court for the Central District of California
  • US District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • US District Court for the Northern District of California
  • US District Court for the Southern District of California
  • US District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Memberships and affiliations

  • San Diego County Bar Association

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