{"id":162306,"date":"2026-09-04T12:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/04\/a-lsquolegend-and-lsquotitan-mass-tort-bar-mourns-death-of-motley-rices-joseph-rice\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:23:22","slug":"a-lsquolegend-and-lsquotitan-mass-tort-bar-mourns-death-of-motley-rices-joseph-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/04\/a-lsquolegend-and-lsquotitan-mass-tort-bar-mourns-death-of-motley-rices-joseph-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"A ‘Legend’ and ‘Titan’: Mass Tort Bar Mourns Death of Motley Rice’s Joseph Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rice, who opened his South Carolina firm in 2003 with Ron Motley, was a key negotiator in settlements involving opioids, \u201cforever chemicals and tobacco. He was 72.<\/p>\n

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Rice, who opened his South Carolina firm in 2003 with Ron Motley, was a key negotiator in settlements involving opioids, \u201cforever chemicals and tobacco. He was 72.<\/p>\n

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Rice, who opened his South Carolina firm in 2003 with Ron Motley, was a key negotiator in settlements involving opioids, \u201cforever chemicals and tobacco. He was 72. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rice, who opened his South Carolina firm in 2003 with Ron Motley, was a key negotiator in settlements involving opioids, \u201cforever chemicals and tobacco. He was 72. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/legal-news-bXZVgW.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}