As Faiza Saeed prepares to ascend to Cravath, Swaine & Moore’s top leadership role, the storied Wall Street firm saw two lawyers recently leave its ranks.

JOSEPH ADAMS, a former Cravath associate who rejoined the firm as a senior attorney in an unusual lateral move last year after serving as an M&A partner at Jones Day and head of Crowell & Moring’s New York office, left Cravath again a little more than a month ago.