Profile: Evan R Chesler

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Mr Chesler received his law degree, cum laude, from New York University Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif (the national honour society for law students), was topics editor of the Law Review, served as a junior fellow at the Center for International Studies (at which he co-authored two published articles on aspects of international law), twice received the John Norton Pomeroy Prize for academic excellence and was awarded the Benjamin Butler Prize.

Following his graduation, Mr Chesler served as law clerk to Judge Inzer B Wyatt of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. He joined Cravath as a litigation associate in 1976 and became a partner in 1982. Mr Chesler became head of the litigation department in 1996. He was elected deputy presiding partner in November 2005, and presiding partner effective January 1, 2007.

Mr Chesler has tried numerous cases in federal and state courts all over the country. He regularly represents many large corporations, including IBM, Time Warner, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Alcoa, Xerox, DuPont, Qualcomm and others.

Mr Chesler is the president of the Dwight Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration, the oldest nonpartisan organisation in the US devoted to the education of the judiciary. He is also a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a fellow in the American Bar Foundation, a fellow in the New York Bar Foundation and a member of the executive committee of the Center for Public Resources. He 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). Mr Chesler has been recognised as a leading litigator by numerous professional publications, including Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America 2007 and The American Lawyer. 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 honours 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 (in The Historian, Huntington Hill Society, 1970).

Mr Chesler received a AB degree, with highest honours in History, from New York University, after which he earned an MA in Russian Area Studies at Hunter College. Mr Chesler has recently been elected a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University and of the New York University School of Law. He is also a member of NYU's Board of Overseers of the Faculty of Arts and Science and founder and chairman of LAMP (the Lawyer Alumni Mentoring Program), which provides mentoring and curriculum enrichment programmes to prelaw students. Mr Chesler has received two awards from the University including the Alumni Distinguished Service Award (2001) and the Alumni Meritorious Service Award (2004). He is also a recipient of The Office of the Appellate Defender's Gould Award for Outstanding Oral Advocacy (2006).

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Mr Chesler received his law degree, cum laude, from New York University Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif (the national honour society for law students), was topics editor of the Law Review, served as a junior fellow at the Center for International Studies (at which he co-authored two published articles on aspects of international law), twice received the John Norton Pomeroy Prize for academic excellence and was awarded the Benjamin Butler Prize.

Following his graduation, Mr Chesler served as law clerk to Judge Inzer B Wyatt of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. He joined Cravath as a litigation associate in 1976 and became a partner in 1982. Mr Chesler became head of the litigation department in 1996. He was elected deputy presiding partner in November 2005, and presiding partner effective 1 January 2007.

Mr Chesler has tried numerous cases in federal and state courts all over the country. He regularly represents many large corporations, including IBM, Time Warner, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Alcoa, Xerox, DuPont, Qualcomm and others.

Mr Chesler is the president of the Dwight Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration, the oldest nonpartisan organisation in the US devoted to the education of the judiciary. He is also a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a fellow in the American Bar Foundation, a fellow in the New York Bar Foundation and a member of the executive committee of the Center for Public Resources. He 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). Mr Chesler has been recognised as a leading litigator by numerous professional publications, including Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America 2007 and The American Lawyer. 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 honours 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 (in The Historian, Huntington Hill Society, 1970).

Mr Chesler received a AB degree, with highest honours in History, from New York University, after which he earned an MA in Russian Area Studies at Hunter College. Mr Chesler has recently been elected a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University and of the New York University School of Law. He is also a member of NYU's Board of Overseers of the Faculty of Arts and Science and founder and chairman of LAMP (the Lawyer Alumni Mentoring Program), which provides mentoring and curriculum enrichment programmes to prelaw students. Mr Chesler has received two awards from the University including the Alumni Distinguished Service Award (2001) and the Alumni Meritorious Service Award (2004).

He is also a recipient of The Office of the Appellate Defender's Gould Award for Outstanding Oral Advocacy (2006).