Labor and Employment Law

Ca. Labor & Emp't Rev. VOLUME 38, NUMBER 6, NOVEMBER 2024

PRO BONO ACHIEVEMENT AWARD LAUNCHED

FROM ASTRONAUT GUS GRISSOM TO MY MOM: THE (UNLIKELY) INFLUENCES THAT SHAPED MY DEDICATION TO PRO BONO LEGAL WORK

Erik Johnson*

"Do good work."

In Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff, he recounted that this was the entirety of a wildly popular speech astronaut Gus Grissom gave to a group of aerospace workers at the height of the Space Race. It was also one of my mom’s favorite sayings while I was growing up, usually as encouragement to do well on something that required hard work.

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