How does preparing to stand up to argue a key Daubert motion compare with running out of the stadium tunnel in front of a crowd of 80,000 screaming fans before a professional football game? 

Well, Michael Catapano, a second-year associate in the New York office of McKool Smith has to be one of the few people on earth who can adequately compare the two experiences. Catapano, who played football in college at Princeton, was the first player drafted out of the Ivy League in more than a decade when the Kansas City Chiefs took him in the seventh round in 2013. Over the course of five seasons, he also logged downs as a pass rusher for the New York Jets, his hometown team, and the Houston Texans before eventually attending St. John’s University School of Law.