Rich received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2005, where he served as the senior articles editor of the Georgetown Law Journal and as a teaching fellow in the Legal Research and Writing Program. Before law school, Rich worked as a computational linguist at a D.C. software engineering firm. He received his A.B., with high honors in classics, from Princeton University, an M.A. in Greek from the University of Texas at Austin, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Greece.