Komal Patel joined Susman Godfrey after clerking for Judge Rosemary Pooler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Victor Marrero of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Before clerking, she practiced litigation at another leading firm.  Ms. Patel graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from New York University.  She earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Managing Editor on the board of the Columbia Law Review and recipient of the Whitney North Seymour Medal, an honor awarded to a student who shows the greatest promise of becoming a distinguished trial advocate.