DIane Rice's practice focuses on difficult and high-profile lawsuits, including patent litigation and. intellectual property cases, business contract and tort disputes, mass torts and class actions. The skill and insight that she brings to cases is based on her broad experience representing plaintiffs and defendants, individuals and Fortune 500 corporations, startup/ emerging tech companies as well as mature companies throughout her career. She has had more than 30 years of litigation experience and over 100 weeks of jury trials throughout the United States. Ms. Rice joined the San Francisco law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, where she was a litigation partner from 1991-2003. Upon the dissolution of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, she co-founded Hosie Rice LLP. She is a member of the California, Florida and Connecticut bars. She has been named one of America's Top 100 High Stake Litigators, America's Most Honored Lawyers, Lawyers of Distinction, Northern California Super Lawyers 2019-2024. She has been selected as one of the Top Women Lawyers in California. Ms. Rice has maintained the Martindale- Hubbell Highest Honor AV Preeminent Ratings, Judicial Edition and Peer Review throughout her career. Ms. Rice has been a member of the national trial team for Baxter Healthcare Corporation and has managed a national experts’ team for American Home Products. For fifteen years she represented Fibreboard Corporation and Pittsburgh Corning Corporation and litigated two of the largest class action trials in the country on their behalf. In a pro bono case, Ms. Rice represented a child who was severely brain damaged as a result of strangulation in a crib and received a $38 million structured settlement during trial. Ms. Rice has been a faculty member for trial advocacy programs at Stanford, Harvard, Notre Dame and the University of San Francisco law schools, as well as a speaker for California Continuing Education of the Bar courses in Trial Skills, Deposition Skills, and Trial Advocacy.