Komal Patel
Associate
New York Office Phone: (212) 729-2049 Email Download vCard Print Bio to PDF
Education

Columbia Law School (J.D.)

New York University
(B.A., Anthropology and Journalism, summa cum laude)

Judicial Clerkship

Honorable Victor Marrero, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Honorable Rosemary S. Pooler, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Komal Patel
Associate

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.

Professional Associations and Memberships

New York State Bar

Honors and Distinctions

Columbia Law School

  • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
  • James Kent Scholar
  • Whitney North Seymour Medal
Publications

Note, Testing the Limits of the First Amendment: How a CFAA Prohibition on Online Antidiscrimination Testing Infringes on Protected Speech Activity, 118 Colum. L. Rev. 1473 (2018).