VIDEO: Rice wades all the way into his cases

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Joe Rice has led some of the larger civil legal actions of the last 30 years, including those stemming from the opioid crisis ($51 billion in settlements), the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill ($7.8 billion to $18 billion) and the Volkswagen‘s diesel emissions scandal ($15 billion, the largest auto-related consumer class-action settlement in U.S. history). In this video, he discusses an axiom that governs his work in them: “Go big and be bold.”

• “When you’re doing litigation, when you talk about go big and be bold, I look at it as take on causes that make a difference or that are gonna make a difference.”
• “So when I talk about going big it is cases — or ‘causes’ we call them, versus ‘cases’ — that make a difference, and if we’re successful, we change lives for the better of a lot of people.”
• “To go bold means forceful, means committed, and once you start, you don’t stop until you prevail.”

Look for the 5 Questions With interview featuring Joe Rice to be published in this month’s print edition of South Carolina Lawyers Weekly and to be posted online soon at sclawyersweekly.com.

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