Rain Levy Minns
About Rain
Rain’s 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 Counsel’s 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 Executive’s 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 Government’s 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 Aristotle’s 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 Executive’s Office, Washington, D.C., Intern, summer 1996
- United States Trade Representative, General Counsel’s Office, Washington, D.C., Intern, summer 1995
Case Histories
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