Overview
Katie Rubcich is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson.
Prior to joining the firm, Katie practiced at a large international law firm, where she drafted dispositive motions for cases involving trademark, landlord-tenant, unfair competition, breach of contract and other commercial litigation matters. She also drafted briefs for federal and state court appeals and assisted with hearing preparation.
Katie previously served as a law clerk to Judge Ronald S.W. Lew of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
While in law school, Katie externed for Judge Otis D. Wright II of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She served as digital media editor of the Pepperdine Law Review and as a captain of the interschool moot court team. Katie earned multiple CALI Awards, including for Constitutional Law: Individual Rights, First Amendment and Ethical Lawyering, and won first place in the Col. John L. Moriarty Moot Court Competition.
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- How the California District Courts are Split, The Newsletter of the Federal Bar Association/Orange County Chapter: 2023 Volume I (2023)
- Presumptively Awful: How the Federal Government is Failing to Protect the Constitutional Rights of Those Adjudicated as Mentally Ill, as Illustrated by the 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(4) Circuit Split, 49 PEPP. L. REV. 901 (2022)
- California Evidence 2021, 34 CALIFORNIA LITIGATION 81 (2021) (co-author)