Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin is a law firm that practices in large and complex litigation, corporate counseling and transactional work, tax matters, precedent-setting bankruptcies intelligently, conflicts of interest, disqualification, malpractice and dissolution. The firm is also involved in pro bono matters, especially those that involve personal civil and human rights issues. Howard Rice s corporate, bankruptcy, real estate and tax attorneys specialize in structuring public offerings, mergers, acquisitions, tax strategies, restructurings and other business transactions in numerous industries, states and countries throughout the world. The firm s clients include The Charles Schwab Corporation, Citigroup Global Markets, Digital River, Genentech, Hewlett-Packard, Morgan Stanley, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, PalmSource, Prudential Securities, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Sony Online Entertainment, Technology Crossover Ventures, Thomas Weisel Partners, the United States Olympic Committee, Visa International, Vivendi Universal Games and Wells Fargo Bank. Howard Rice was created in 1954 and is headquartered in San Francisco.