It's a fluke that Katie Connell is a family law attorney. After law school, she gave her résumé to "anyone who would take it" and eventually it ended up in the hands of a family practice firm. They called, and during the interview she was asked why she wanted to practice family law.

"I said I didn't particularly want to, I just needed a job," she says. "I didn't even take the family law courses in school. It was dumb luck I ended up here doing family law, but I wouldn't change it for the world."

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