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Sep. 8, 2017

Making Your Luck

Judge Jeffrey Miller credits providence, but lawyers say his distinguished career is no accident

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Making Your Luck
Southern District of California (San Diego)

SAN DIEGO — For Jeffrey T. Miller, the seeds of his legal career began on baseball fields in Los Angeles. There, the now senior U.S. District judge developed skills that as a teenager caught the attention of a neighbor who enlisted him to coach his young sons.

A few years later, the neighbor, Daniel Kaufmann, resurfaced in what Miller describes as a personal bout of good fortune. Fresh from UCLA School of Law, Miller ap... (continued)

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