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relationships. For my part, whatever negative feelings that I had devel- oped about law firm practice prior to going to Coronet and while I was at Sutherland and Squire were exacerbated by my inactivity, and those feelings were reaffirmed tenfold when I learned about the intended “restructuring” from Charles. That news decided it for me. Squire was history. What next?
More than a decade had elapsed since I had decided to depart from Rosenman in order to join Coronet. Coronet had been an exciting and invaluable learning experience (even if it ended badly), and, as I’ve said, the RTC was the best thing that I had (or have) done professionally. Had the RTC been in New York rather than Washington, I would not have left. After I decided to finish at the RTC in Washington, I had the choice of “going home” or, reluctantly (responsibly), once again making my living as a partner in a law firm. More than three years at Sutherland and Squire, while they had their good moments, had increased my dissatisfaction with the law firm world. So, it was time once again for reassessment.
And about seven years had elapsed since I had donned the red sweatshirt and joined Gus and Francis in the Church Lane South library. Things were different now. I was older, obviously, and our financial posi- tion, thanks to Kathy, was far better than it had been in 1990. Kathy was very supportive, and I don’t recall having the larger questions “How would I be?” and “What would I do with myself ?” quite as much on my mind as they had been when I left Coronet. I was not worried about keeping myself intellectually engaged, and my pride was intact. Thus, I left Squire with no plans of returning to the workplace, any workplace. After taking a deep breath and some quality time off, I was finally going to take my shot at writing a book, writing it in a new family room in a far-more-comfortable 16 Church Lane South.
So, five or six weeks went by, with a good deal more thinking about writing than writing itself, when line one of the Church Lane South telephone rang one Friday afternoon (the afternoon of Friday, May 16, to be exact). It was Joe Getraer, who had been standing in the reception area when I arrived at Rosenman Colin Kaye Petschek Freund & Emil
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