Darren Heil is a Managing Director in the Investment Bank at JPMorgan Chase. After law school, he joined Cravath as a litigation associate before moving into the Firm’s Tax Department. In the Season 2 finale of On Tax, Darren talks to Cravath partner and host Len Teti about his career path being hired in-house to an investment bank and some of the current trends he is seeing in the deal space.

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Ashley Elnicki is a yoga teacher in Denver, Colorado, who started her professional career as a tax associate at Cravath. In this episode of On Tax, Ashley talks to Cravath partner and former colleague Len Teti about her path from Pittsburg, Kansas, to Los Angeles and later to New York City, her decision to depart and then rejoin the Firm, and the mentorship she received from the late USC School of Law professor Edward Kleinbard along the way.

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Tom Neylon is the Senior Vice President, Tax of Endo Pharmaceuticals. Before attending law school, he worked at a public accounting firm in his home state of Delaware. In this episode of On Tax, Tom talks to Cravath partner and host Len Teti about his time in Basel, Switzerland, and how he cultivates trust on multinational teams.

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James Halpern is a Senior Judge of the United States Tax Court. Before joining the bench, he led a varied career in tax, including time spent in private practice, academia and the federal government. In this episode of On Tax, Judge Halpern talks to Cravath partner and host Len Teti about the mentorship he offers his law clerks and what has surprised him most during his more than 30 years on the bench.

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Mitchell Kane is the Gerald L. Wallace Professor of Taxation at NYU School of Law and the Editor-in-Chief of Tax Law Review. Before moving to New York, he taught students at University of Virginia School of Law, including Cravath partner and host Len Teti. In this episode of On Tax, Mitchell talks to Len about his early introduction to tax law through his family’s business, his transition from a law firm to academia, and the advice he gives his students when they are researching law firms.

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Eric Hilfers serves as Head of the Executive Compensation and Benefits Department at Cravath. In the Season 2 premiere of On Tax, he talks to fellow Cravath partner and host Len Teti about starting at the Firm as a corporate associate, the professional interests that later drew him to the Tax Department, and how his hybrid skillset enabled him to help pioneer the Firm’s then newly created Executive Compensation and Benefits practice in the mid-2000s.

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Lauren Angelilli is the Head of the Tax Department at Cravath, and Ting Chen is the Firm’s Corporate Hiring Partner. In this special recruiting episode of On Tax, Lauren and Ting talk to fellow Cravath partner Len Teti about their own experiences coming to the Firm, what law students can expect during their call back interviews, and the types of meaningful work that associates take part in when they come to Cravath.

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Mike Lane is the head of the Tax Department at London-based law firm Slaughter and May. Mike recalls wanting to be a Royal Air Force pilot growing up before deciding to pursue his law degree. In the Season 1 finale of On Tax, he talks to Cravath partner Len Teti about how training as a lawyer in the U.K. differs from the U.S. legal education, as well as how he encourages young associates in his Department to take ownership of their matters as an important part of their training.

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Josh Gordon is the Vice President, Finance - Controller for IBM Americas. After receiving his law degree, Josh started working as a tax associate at PwC while completing his LLM part-time at NYU School of Law. In this episode of On Tax, he talks to Cravath partner Len Teti about the many crossroads he has faced in his career, as well as the opportunities his mentors encouraged him to pursue along the way.

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Kiran Sheffrin is a senior attorney in Cravath’s Tax Department. In this episode of On Tax, she talks to Cravath partner and colleague Len Teti about how she has always wanted to be a lawyer; the opportunities she pursued while a student at Brooklyn Law School; and how she has embraced her role as a mentor, guiding junior associates much in the same way that she was brought up at the Firm.

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