Coby Ascunce is clerking for Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. He previously worked in Washington, DC as a litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, the latter of which he will be returning to post-clerkship. He graduated cum laude from Notre Dame Law School, where he served as Managing Senior Editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. Mr. Ascunce holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Virginia.