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First Person

Feb. 1, 2010

Persistence Pays Off

After three months, 7,000 emails, and twelve interviews all over the state, I finally found myself with a litigation boutique in San Francisco.


A year ago, my wife and I were just getting back from three months of honeymoon travels through Asia. It was not the best time to be a newly admitted California attorney with no job and no prospects. Although I got my law degree in 2008 from the University of Arizona in Tucson, I wasn't a young twenty-something lawyer. I was 40 years old when I passed the bar. I already had an MBA a...

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