
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)