When the National Football League’s Atlanta Falcons take the field this Sunday in Super Bowl 51 against the New England Patriots, Colin Cloherty will feel conflicted about which team to root for in the big game.
Cloherty, a 29-year-old native of Bethesda, Maryland, is a first-year associate at Wiley Rein, where he works in the Washington, D.C.-based Am Law 200 firm’s government contracts and white-collar defense and investigations group. After graduating from Brown University in 2009, Cloherty embarked on a four-year career as a tight end in the NFL.
