Secret Life Of ATL Writer Revealed!

Which ATL columnist has a new gig?

Attention ATL readers: there is a liar in your midst. Okay, maybe the lie isn’t about some big life or death issue, but the carefully gender-neutral alias (which worked so well for Article III groupie) you’ve all come to know and loathe, Alex Rich is a pseudonym. Which is a lie by a prettier name.

But now the time has arrived to come clean… Alex Rich is really me, Kathryn Rubino. As of today, I am joining the editorial staff here at Above the Law. The bones of the Alex Rich bio still hold true, but now that I am “out,” I figure you deserve a few more of the details.

I am a New Yorker born and raised — never actually lived outside of the 5 boroughs (YES, Staten Island counts!) — having graduated from NYU with a degree in journalism and then onto Columbia Law School. I graduated when the legal market was booming so it seemed easy and natural to ply my wares in Biglaw for a spell. I worked at Cahill as a litigator before lateraling over to Wilson Sonsini to be an antitrust litigator. I pretty much hated my life, but hey, I was making money. Times were good and I expected my life to continue down the well-tread path of law firm life. So imagine my surprise when the whole economy crashed and I found myself without a job.

After plowing through a nice chunk of savings waiting for the legal market to make a comeback, I finally came to the realization that I was not, in fact, too good for document review. So I’ve spent the last 5 or so years mired in the world of ediscovery, primarily as a Staff Attorney at a vendor. I’ve logged my fair share of hours coding documents and also got a chance to do more analytical and technology-assisted review work. Thrilling as all of that sounds, I eventually decided that clicking through documents does not a career make. So, here I am. Actually (well, theoretically) using the journalism degree I got way back at NYU.

So now that you get to see my byline every day, what is there to know about me? I love football and hockey (heavy on NY teams), I think Patton Oswalt and Amy Schumer are hilarious, my favorite class in law school was Intersectionality and the Law taught by Kimberlé Crenshaw, my drink of choice is Miller Lite, I was on the debate team in college, and I fully intend to watch the midnight showing of the new Avengers movie. You can follow me @Kathryn1 for random thoughts about all of those topics.

And I still hate How To Get Away With Murder.

 

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