Cravath, Swaine & Moore has elected its first lateral partner in more than six decades: tax partner Andrew W. Needham from Willkie Farr & Gallagher. According to law.com:
The firm has hired a handful of lateral partners in the past, mostly in the relatively small tax practice. The firm hired Herbert L. Camp, also a tax partner, from the now-defunct Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine in 1987, but he is not considered a true lateral because he had previously been a Cravath associate.
The last true lateral at the firm was Roswell Magill, a former Treasury Department official, who became a Cravath tax partner in 1943.
