Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Elects Evan R. Chesler Presiding Partner.NEW YORK -- Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP has elected Evan R. Chesler as its next Presiding Partner. Mr. Chesler, who currently heads the Firm's 157-lawyer Litigation Department, will begin serving as Deputy Presiding Partner effective immediately and will officially assume the responsibilities of Presiding Partner on January 1, 2007. Mr. Chesler will be the Firm's tenth Presiding Partner. In January of 2007, Mr. Chesler will succeed Robert D. Joffe, who will return to practicing law full-time. Mr. Joffe has served as the Firm's Presiding Partner since January 1, 1999, and has an extensive practice in the areas of antitrust, securities litigation and counseling and corporate governance. His clients include Time Warner Inc. and its subsidiaries (Home Box Office, Time Inc., and Time Warner Cable This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. ), the Fannie Mae non-management directors and Sprint. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, whose roots date back to 1819, has more than 420 lawyers and professionals in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and London. For nearly two centuries, the Firm has been widely recognized as the premier American law firm. Each of the Firm's practice areas is regarded among the best in the world and its lawyers are distinguished by their commitment to excellence in representing clients' interests in the U.S. and abroad. Evan Chesler Mr. Chesler joined Cravath in 1976 and became a Partner in 1982. He was named Head of the Litigation Department in 1996. During the past several years, Mr. Chesler has been lead counsel in antitrust, intellectual property and general commercial cases for Alcoa, Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Merck and Xerox. He has been cited as one of the country's leading practitioners in the antitrust, intellectual property and commercial litigation arenas by Chambers USA 2005: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and in antitrust and bet-the-company litigation by Best Lawyers in America 2006. He has also been named a Leader in Dispute Resolution by PLC Which Lawyer 2005. Education and Clerkship Mr. Chesler received a A.B. degree with highest honors in History from New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the in 1970, after which he earned an M.A. in Russian Area Studies at Hunter College in 1973 and a J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law The New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. in 1975, where he was Topics Editor of the Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif An unincorporated national scholastic honor society in law. Its purpose is to foster excellence in legal scholarship and to recognize those who have attained high grades in law school or who have distinguished themselves in the teaching of law. . He also served a clerkship with the Hon. Inzer B. Wyatt (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York). Professional Activities Mr. Chesler is the President of the Institute of Judicial Administration, the oldest nonpartisan organization in the U.S. devoted to the education of the judiciary. He is also a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers The American College of Trial Lawyers is a professional trial organization composed of trial lawyers from the United States and Canada. Founded in 1950, the College is dedicated to maintaining and improving the standards of trial practice, the administration of justice and the , a fellow in the American Bar Foundation Established in 1952, the American Bar Foundation (ABF) is an independent, nonprofit national research institute located in Chicago, Illinois committed to objective empirical research on law and legal institutions. , a member of the Executive Committee of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, and a board member of the New York State League This article refers to the modern New York State League. For the original incarnations of the New York State League see New York State League (1885-1917) The New York State League of Women Voters Education Foundation. Mr. Chesler is also a member of the American Bar Association American Bar Association (ABA), voluntary organization of lawyers admitted to the bar of any state. Founded (1878) largely through the efforts of the Connecticut Bar Association, it is devoted to improving the administration of justice, seeking uniformity of law , New York State Bar Association The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), with about 72,000 members, is the largest voluntary association of lawyers in the United States. The NYSBA was founded in Albany on November 21 1876. New York lacks an integrated bar, and the NYSBA does not license lawyers in the state. and Association of the Bar of the City of New York The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, also known as the New York City Bar, was established in 1871. The association has about 19,435 members. The House of the Association, at 42 West 44th Street, was built in 1896 and is a registered landmark. . Writing and Speaking Mr. Chesler is the author of numerous articles on legal topics as well as a chapter in the popular book, Inside the Minds of Leading Litigators (Aspatore Books, 2002). He is a guest lecturer at New York University Law School and has been an adjunct faculty member at NYU's College of Arts and Science, where he has taught an honors seminar entitled, "Constitutional Rights in Times of National Crisis". His nonlegal publications include The Russian Jewry Reader (Behrman House, 1974) and South Africa Before World War II (The Historian, Huntington Hill Society, 1970). Involvement with NYU Mr. Chesler and his wife have endowed the Barbara and Evan Chesler Pre-Law Program of New York University's College of Arts and Science, and the Chesler Scholarship, which is awarded each year to an outstanding, pre-law junior at the College. Mr. Chesler is a member of NYU's Board of Overseers of the Faculty of Arts Historically the Faculty of Arts was one of the four traditional divisions of the teaching bodies of universities, the others being theology, law and medicine.[1] Nowadays it is a common name for the faculties teaching humanities. References 1. and Science, a member of the University's Council on the Future of Arts and Science, and founder and Chairman of LAMP (the Lawyer Alumni Mentoring Program), which provides mentoring and curriculum enrichment programs to pre-law students. In 2001, Mr. Chesler received the College's Alumni Distinguished Service Award. In 2004, he received the University's Alumni Meritorious Service Award. |
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