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Friday, November 23, 2007
Law - A good Friday story, 18-year-old easily passes dreaded California bar
The WSJ Blog had this entry earlier this week, about 18-Year-Old Kathleen Holtz passing the California Bar. By now there are plenty of reader comments, many of them asking why someone that smart would jump immediately into law firm practice:
Two years ago, the WSJ broke news that Kathleen Sullivan, the noted constitutional scholar and former dean of Stanford Law School, failed the California bar, notorious for being the hardest in the nation. (Sullivan passed the second time around.)Here is an earlier feature on Kathleen Holtz from the Oct. 19th LA Times, headed "Young law school grad skips the bars and tries to pass the bar instead: Eighteen-year-old Kathleen Holtz has already been hired by a Century City firm. If she doesn't fail the exam, she'll be the youngest licensed lawyer in the nation."Today we have happier bar-exam news about another Kathleen — 18-year-old Kathleen Holtz (pictured). Last month we introduced you to Holtz, a first-year associate at TroyGould in Los Angeles who was awating her bar results.
On Friday night at 6 p.m., Holtz found out that she passed — the first time around. Once sworn in and admitted to the Calfornia bar, she’ll be the youngest lawyer in the Golden State, and quite possibly the nation. Holtz started at Cal State L.A. at age 10 and entered UCLA Law at 15, earning a spot on the law review.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 23, 2007 09:43 AM
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