{"id":162451,"date":"2026-09-08T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/08\/critical-mass-with-law-coms-amanda-bronstad-motley-rices-joe-rice-has-died-at-72-bursor-fisher-accused-of-judge-shopping\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:00:59","slug":"critical-mass-with-law-coms-amanda-bronstad-motley-rices-joe-rice-has-died-at-72-bursor-fisher-accused-of-judge-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/08\/critical-mass-with-law-coms-amanda-bronstad-motley-rices-joe-rice-has-died-at-72-bursor-fisher-accused-of-judge-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Mass With Law.com’s Amanda Bronstad: Motley Rice’s Joe Rice Has Died at 72. Bursor & Fisher Accused of Judge-Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rice, who was 72, was one of the biggest names in mass torts for the past three decades, helping negotiate settlements over opioids, asbestos, \u201cforever chemicals and tobacco.<\/p>\n

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Rice, who was 72, was one of the biggest names in mass torts for the past three decades, helping negotiate settlements over opioids, asbestos, \u201cforever chemicals and tobacco.<\/p>\n

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Rice, who was 72, was one of the biggest names in mass torts for the past three decades, helping negotiate settlements over opioids, asbestos, \u201cforever chemicals and tobacco. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rice, who was 72, was one of the biggest names in mass torts for the past three decades, helping negotiate settlements over opioids, asbestos, \u201cforever chemicals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162451","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=162451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}