Employment attorney Paul Lancaster Adams has made his way back to Philadelphia by way of Redmond, Wash., and Washington, D.C.

The former Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads partner spent more than three years in-house with Microsoft in various capacities before deciding he wanted to return to private practice and the town in which he spent most of his career. The opportunity to head up the relatively new Philadelphia office of labor and employment boutique Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart was the icing on the cake for Adams.