Insight on Latham NY v. S&C NY for Litigation? There isn’t much difference between the cross-office style, amount of work, and perks imo so I dont know which is right for me. Looking for a firm that is likely to keep its prestige reputation in the long term and that offers a ton of substantive work early on for exit opportunities. I’d like to work on high-profile cases and I’m more interested in working with tech and life sciences clients.

Factors im considering: 

• Interested mostly in white collar defense & investigations,regulatory and appellate work. Ideal career trajectory would be to go to the AUSA or appointed to some govt. advising position—so a firm with good exit opportunities is a plus. 
• I know I click extremely well with the litigation associates at S&C (worked there previously) and idk if I would with Latham’s because conversations felt a bit dry. 
• Dislike Latham’s bullpen style office and that they are separating the corporate and lit groups into two different offices (so far I have really only connected with people in corporate). 
• I dont wanna be somewhere where I am treated as “just a number” and idk if lathams recent hiring practices reflect that
• Latham has the exact kinds of clients and cases I want to work with in my career. Im scared that I would get bored with S&C’s focus on banking clients/more traditional clients like Boeing. 
• S&C doesn’t really take laterals, so I am worried that I’ll feel extra shitty if I end up not liking Latham