Casey graduated from
Georgetown University with a
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in 1999, majoring in economics and political theory. He was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa. In 2002, he graduated with a
J.D. magna cum laude from the
University of Chicago Law School, where he won the John M. Olin Prize for the Outstanding Student in Law and Economics and was a member of the
Order of the Coif and the
University of Chicago Law Review. After graduating from law school, Casey clerked for Judge
Joel Flaum on the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Between 2004 and 2006, he worked at
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz before moving to
Kirkland & Ellis in
Chicago, where he made partner in 2008. Casey teaches courses and seminars in corporate governance, business law, bankruptcy and reorganization, finance, litigation strategy, civil procedure, and law and technology. In 2020, he was a visiting professor at
Harvard Law School. ==References==