During a lull in the long Microsoft antitrust trial, I was approached about an in-house job at an investment bank and, frankly, after the intensity of that case, I was thinking that I might be ready for a change. After about a year at the bank, however, I knew that I wanted to come back to S&C—I missed the challenging work, I missed working with truly brilliant lawyers, I missed the camaraderie, and I missed learning new things every day. When I did return to S&C, I worked on three entirely different and intense matters in a period of 18 months and then was elected a partner. To this day, I firmly believe that my experience as an in-house lawyer has made me a more effective outside lawyer, because I know the challenges and pressures that the client is experiencing.