He has ambitions of making theater a second career. For most of the last two decades he has been a writer and performer in the Chicago Bar Association's annual Christmas Spirit Show, generally a collage of political satire and musical parody. Four years ago he quit his position as a partner with a large Loop firm and took a less stressful job with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (he has since moved on to the Chicago development firm CMC Heartland Partners) to allow more time to write and act.