Rain Minns

Rain Levy Minns About Rain Rains litigation experience ranges from international arbitration in Hong Kong to Native American courts to jury trials in the United States. After law school, Rain clerked for Chief Judge George P. Kazen in the Southern District of Texas. She then became an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas, where she was recognized for her outstanding work, which focused on nursing home death cases. She first-chaired and obtained favorable trial and appellate verdicts in all of her cases, including the highest arbitration award in the history of her division. Rain has also worked at two large firms, Bickel & Brewer and Holland & Knight, LLC. During her time there, she focused on bet-the-company litigation for Fortune 500 companies, where any bad outcome could have destroyed the client companies. She also gained commercial litigation experience from working for the United States Trade Representative, General Counsels Office and as a commercial real estate appraiser at Joseph J. Blake & Associates. At all of her legal jobs, whether directly or in a preventative manner, Rain dealt with white collar criminal defense issues. To date, Rain has tried numerous cases, but has rarely lost a trial. Rain lives in Austin, Texas with her three normally well-behaved children (Aria, Solomon, and Zoe), and Rottweiler (Delphina). Currently, Rain and Solomon are developing skills together—studying classical guitar and slaughtering pigs in the Angry Birds game. Court Clerkships/Externships/Internships Honorable George P. Kazen, Chief Judge, U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Laredo (2001-2002), clerkship Honorable Thomas J. McAvoy, Chief Judge, U. S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, Binghamton (1999-2000), extern D. C. Federal Circuit Executives Office, Washington, D. C., (summer 1996), intern Publications Mitigation Videos: More Than Words (working title), The Champion, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (accepted for publication in June 2011) Insuring a Civil Confession in Texas: Strategies for Alleging and Challenging Affirmative Defenses, The Advocate, The State Bar of Texas Litigation Section Report (Winter 2006) Handling Experts, The Young Lawyer, 9 : 10 (July/August 2005) Food Fights: Redefining the Current Boundaries of the Governments Positive Obligation to Provide Halal, Journal of Law and Politics, 17 : 713 (Summer 2002) updated § 20.09 on H-2A visas in Gordon, Mailman, & Yale-Loehr, Immigration Law & Procedure (Fall 2001) Registry Systems for Foreign and Domestic Farmworkers in the United States: Theory vs. Reality, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, 15 : 633 (Summer 2001) A Comparison of Aristotles and Hobbes Notions of Justice, Government Honors Thesis in the permanent collection at Dartmouth College (1997) Past Employment Bickel & Brewer, Dallas, TX, Associate, 2004-2007 Office of the Attorney General of Texas, Elder Law & Public Health Division, Austin, TX, Assistant Attorney General, 2002-2004 Honorable George P. Kazen, Chief Judge, U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Laredo, Law Clerk, 2001-2002 Holland & Knight, LLC, Boston, MA, Summer Associate, 2000 Honorable Thomas J. McAvoy, Chief Judge, U. S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, Binghamton, Extern, Fall 1999 Ho-Chunk Nation Department of Justice, Black River Falls, WI, Summer Associate, 1999 Joseph J. Blake & Associates, Boston, MA, Commercial Real Estate Appraiser, 1997-1998 D. C. Federal Circuit Executives Office, Washington, D. C., Intern, summer 1996 United States Trade Representative, General Counsels Office, Washington, D. C., Intern, summer 1995 Case Histories See our Case Histories page (coming soon) for insight into our services.