Armando joined Susman Godfrey after clerking for Judge David O. Carter of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and for Judge Gerard E. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Armando is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was the Executive Online Editor for the Columbia Law Review. Armando was active in the Advanced Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, helping to secure asylum for one client and convincing the Board of Immigration Appeals to reopen and remand an adverse decision from an immigration judge for another client. Armando received his undergraduate degree from Columbia College.