How does it compare to being dean of Harvard Law School?
Well, that was an amazing job, too. I can’t tell you how lucky I think I am to have been given the opportunity to lead these two institutions. Of course, Harvard Law School is much bigger than the SG’s office, so a much greater managerial challenge. And this seems funny to say, but my job at Harvard was much more political than my job here. The SG position is really an “all law, all the time” job, which is what makes it such a pleasure. What’s it been like being in on the early days of a new administration? How much contact do you have with Attorney General Holder? It’s a very exciting and inspiring time, and I think no place more than at the Justice Department. The attorney general’s leadership has been palpable. He’s given people in the building a sense of all kinds of new and great possibilities. I see him most days — if for no other reason than that he’s just down the hall from me. But I try not to enter or exit the building at the same time he does. We’re on the fifth floor, and
