White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is in hot water as she claims to be a lawyer but there is no confirmation that she passed the bar exam.
She also listed Zhong Lun Law Firm in Beijing as her workplace for nearly two years starting in 2011. Because experts said she is not, a major row erupted over White House’s new press secretary Katie Zacharia, calling herself a lawyer.
Which state?” a reporter asked Trump on Tuesday, who turned to Zacharia to ask her, “which state? On her LinkedIn, she lists herself as “general counsel” for the activist group Fix California. “Due to confidentiality requirements, the State Bar can only confirm whether someone passed the bar exam, not whether they took the bar exam. ” Pepperdine University’s Caruso Law School congratulated Zacharia on the appointment, noting she was both an alumna and a member of its Dean’s Council. “I practiced international transaction law, with all the appropriate credentials,” she told NewsNation on a question about the bar exam. Jared Nelson, CEO of Pathway Compliance, shed some light on the internal workings of Chinese law firms and said that he also moved to China to work at a law firm around the same time Zacharia moved. He said when he joined, his bar exam results were pending and until the results came out he had a limited role and strict supervision by a licensed lawyer. “Her statements of “practicing law”, being a “lawyer”, or acting as “general counsel” would very likely be an unauthorized practice of law violation if she was not admitted to the bar somewhere,” Nelson explained, adding that the firm Zacharia worked is a prestigious Chinese firm and they would not have done anything illegal.
Zacharia has a law degree from the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, but there’s no evidence she ever passed a bar exam. “Where did she pass the bar exam? But it’s still not clear which bar exam she took as only citizens can become licenced to practice law in China. But it’s not clear whether she passed the bar exam. You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.