The New Lawyer Supplement
Nov. 25, 2009
Fortuitous Furlough
University of San Francisco School of Law grad found herself like many of her colleagues this year with a big firm job offer deferred. But she created her own luck and got an internship at the White House.
I might just be the luckiest person in the world, so lucky, in fact, that some members of my family have taken to calling me "Forrest Gump," someone else who always seemed to be in the right place at the right time. My mom disagrees, because she believes that you make your own luck; that "luck" is simply where opportunity and preparation meet, rather than some abstract quality that benefits some and evades others. If that'...
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