Julie Ann Hauge Rice

Attorney Rice graduated with honors with a Bachelors of Arts degree with double major in Psychology and Womens' Studies, and a minor in Scandinavian Studies, from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1990.  She obtained her Juris Doctorate in 1993 from William Mitchell College of Law, a private accredited law school in St. Paul, Minnesota, and became a licensed Attorney in the State of Georgia shortly thereafter on June 4, 1994.  She can be located in the State Bar of Georgia under Julie A. Rice or Julie A. Hauge Rice, Attorney at Law.

Julie A. Rice, Attorney at Law, has been practicing law in the metro Atlanta area and beyond since 1994. During this time, she has represented clients inside and outside of the courtroom in areas, including but not limited to, Family Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Personal Injury, Workers Compensation, Criminal, Wills, Estates and Trusts, Business Law, Contracts, Civil Litigation, Collections, Medical Malpractice, and Landlord/Tenant Relations.  She is also affiliated with legal experts in areas of law including, but not limited to, Personal Injury,  Workers Compensation, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse, Bankruptcy, Family Law, Civil Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Wills/Special Needs Trusts, Criminal Law, Expungements/Restoration of Civil Rights/Pardons, and Identity Theft.  For many years, she has served of counsel for the prominent Atlanta based law firm of Smith, White, Sharma & Halpern now known as Law-In-Atlanta where she is also currently affiliated.

Attorney Rice has been a member of Good Standing with the Georgia State Bar since 1994, and has been a member of the criminal law, family law, landlord/tenant, alternative dispute resolution, employment law, business law, civil litigation, and equine law sections.  She is also the founding partner and former Chief Executive Officer of the Atlanta based company Alternative Dispute Resolution Specialists, LLC, and she is a registered Neutral with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution that is governed by the State Bar of Georgia, and is registered in the areas of Domestic Relations Mediation, Arbitration, General Mediation, and Specialized Domestic Violence Mediation.  She has over 500 cases of neutral experience as a mediator in her legal career and has successfully resolved disputes involving family law matters, collection matters, landlord tenant issues, personal injury matters, medical malpractice matters, business conflicts, and contractual disputes.

Attorney Rice served as Chief Legal Counsel for the publicly traded corporation Century Business Services, Inc. (CBIZ) whereby her responsibilities included starting up and managing the legal department.  The business involved bank owned life insurance (BOLI) and she was, among other things, responsible for drafting, negotiating, and implementing legal agreements between the participant of the plan (usually a bank executive or bank director) and the bank.  During her tenure at CBIZ, she  drafted over 1,000 legal documents per year, and in one of her final years as Chief Legal Counsel, herself and one legal assistant produced over one half of a million dollars ($ 1,000,) in profit her legal work.  She also assisted outside legal counsel with pending litigation.

Attorney Rice is also a Senior Professor and Subject Matter Expert in the Graduate Program at an accredited university where she has served in this position for nine (9) years where she is a Subject Matter Expert in Conflict Management and she teaches Managing Conflict in the Workplace (Graduate Program) and The Legal Environment (Undergraduate).  She is also former Lead Faculty of Law and Ethics at another accredited university where she has taught classes including, but not limited to, Enterprise Risk (Masters in Business Administration), Business Law, Employment Law, Criminal Law, Ethics in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Creative Minds and Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Ethics and the Administration of Justice, Information in a New Tech Age, and University Studies.

Until recently, I also held my insurance license in the State of Georgia in life, accident and sickness insurance, and my Real Estate License.