Although Pratt enjoyed his job at Honeywell � managing the company’s corporate and toxic tort litigation � he missed the nuts and bolts of litigating cases. But perhaps more crucially, he says, his new home offered no cultural outlet. “It is what it is,” says Pratt of Honeywell and its environs. “It is a community and a company that, at least at this time, does not have a great degree of diversity.” Nor did Morristown offer the sort of civic activities that Pratt had enjoyed in Philadelphia, where he chaired several bar association committees, worked for Big Brothers of Philadelphia, and chaired the board of a major legal services organization.
So when Pratt returned to Pepper this May, he was thrilled to be back. “It feels like home,” he says. “You feel it in the air. You feel the hustle and bustle.” Next time a headhunter phones, maybe Pratt should just put the call through to voicemail.
