California 17-Year-Old is ‘One of State’s Youngest Practicing Attorneys’ After Passing Bar Exam
“It was not easy, but it was worth it. It required discipline and strategy to pass the bar, and I made it in the end”
This kid is apparently getting a head start on his career. Good for him.
FOX News reports:
California teen passes bar exam at 17, becomes one of state’s ‘youngest practicing attorneys’
A California teen is now a practicing attorney after passing the state bar exam at the young age of 17.
Peter Park, a Tulare County District Attorney law clerk, passed the exam on his very first attempt, according to a news announcement shared on Dec. 6 by the Tulare County District Attorney’s office.
“The previous record holder was 18 years old. Park received his test results on November 9 after taking the exam in July,” the release stated.
This is reportedly not the first time Park has shown his impressive academic ability.
In 2019, at age 13, Park started high school at Oxford Academy in Cypress, California, the DA’s office stated in its release.
During that time, Park enrolled in Northwestern California University School of Law and took part in the school’s four-year juris doctor program.
Park was able to do this by using “a state bar rule that allows students to apply to law school through the completion of College Level Proficiency Exams (CLEPS),” the Tulare County DA’s office reported.
Park graduated from high school in 2021 after completing the California High School Proficiency Exam.
Park focused on his law school aspirations and graduated from Northwestern California University School of Law in 2023.
He joined the team at the Tulare County District Attorney as a law clerk in August.
“It was not easy, but it was worth it. It required discipline and strategy to pass the bar, and I made it in the end,” Park told the DA’s office.
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Peter Park, asian american, whose parents are non-native speakers of engilsh from korea.
That’s got to make heads explode with the woke progressive leftie narrative about systemic racism, which posits oppression of those from minority race and language background.
WIll he be required to become an advocate for “the community”, or risk being labeled a race traitor? Will he come to find himself labeled a ‘banana’, or yellow on the outside and white on the inside?
It’s really pathetic you put this much thought into this. You need a hobby.
Hobby like south park guitar hero?
Commenting *IS* a hobby.
Impressive. Used to be able to take that bar exam without law school. How he managed to complete law school by 17 is incredible. Means he passed a lot of CLEP’s before age 13.
It was an online law school that is not ABA accredited.
So effectively not much different than “reading” for the bar in days of old. Time will tell whether he’s effective as an actual lawyer.
How can he be a practicing attorney if he is not old enough to sign legal contracts?
His parents can sign for him.
You may be saying that tongue in cheek but could they?
I’m sure he is emancipated, so he can contract.
But although the State believes he is Man enough to borrow money and decide to have his male appendage removed, he cannot drink alcohol or get a tattoo.