Partner Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Joe Wesley Earnhardt (Wes) is a first-chair trial and appellate lawyer with significant experience in antitrust, general commercial, intellectual property, securities, and financial restructuring and reorganization matters. He is described as a “careful and thorough” litigator and praised for having a “gift for communicating complicated concepts in an accessible way.” (Chambers USA) Named a “Litigation Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal and a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation, Mr. Earnhardt regularly represents clients in their most business‑critical disputes. Some of his clients have included Atlas Air, Corteva, Epic Games, ESPN, GTT Communications, Illumina, Ingevity, JPMorgan Chase, PG&E, Qualcomm, Root, Spirit AeroSystems, Starz Entertainment, Time Warner, The Walt Disney Company and Xerox.