Evan Chesler
Evan R. Chesler is an American lawyer and the Chairman of Cravath, Swaine & Moore.Education and career
Chesler received an A.B. degree from New York University with highest honors in history, and then an M.A. from Hunter College in Russian area studies. He received a J.D. degree cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif, and was Topics Editor of the New York University Law Review, a junior fellow at the Center for International Studies, was co-author of two published articles on aspects of international law, recipient of the John Norton Pomeroy Prize for academic excellence two times and also of the Benjamin Butler Prize. Upon graduation, he became a law clerk to Inzer B. Wyatt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
He joined Cravath in 1976 as a litigation associate, becoming partner in 1982, and head of the Litigation Department in 1996. In November 2005, he was elected Deputy Presiding Partner, and on January 1, 2007, the law firm's 14th Presiding Partner. Effective January 1, 2013, he became Chairman of the firm, the first person to hold that title in the history of the firm.
