{"id":165440,"date":"2026-10-21T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/21\/the-trump-administration-struggled-with-the-bar-exam-and-its-inbox\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T12:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:24:19","slug":"the-trump-administration-struggled-with-the-bar-exam-and-its-inbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/21\/the-trump-administration-struggled-with-the-bar-exam-and-its-inbox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Administration Struggled With The Bar Exam And Its Inbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a rough week for the Trump administration\u2019s relationship with credentials\u2026 and email. New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia spent years on cable news billed as a \u201clawyer,\u201d but there was\u00a0no record of her being licensed anywhere<\/a>. It\u2019s the move every law clerk has been tempted to make, except she also called herself \u201cGeneral Counsel.\u201d Turns out\u00a0she\u00a0took the California bar exam, failed, and called herself a lawyer anyway<\/a>. By the time she was out of the job, her defenders had settled on the argument that\u00a0Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris also failed the bar<\/a>. That defense ignores two things: both of them went back and passed, and neither claimed to be anyone\u2019s general counsel in the meantime. Meanwhile, DHS\u00a0kept airing its $20 million taxpayer-funded Trump ad campaign after a federal judge ordered it pulled<\/a>. DOJ\u2019s own status report explained that agency counsel didn\u2019t see the email with the order until the next morning. Sorry, just seeing this!<\/p>\n

Over in Biglaw, the news was considerably cheerier. Cooley became the latest firm to\u00a0hop aboard the Milbank money train<\/a>, moving all U.S. associates to the new market salary scale. Quinn Emanuel\u00a0scaled back its famous Work From Anywhere policy<\/a>, even so, it\u2019s still the most flexible deal in Biglaw. And Lowenstein Sandler earned some well-deserved applause with a\u00a0new paid leave policy for parents whose newborns face extended NICU stays<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It was a rough week for the Trump administration\u2019s relationship with credentials\u2026 and email. New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia spent years on cable news billed as a \u201clawyer,\u201d but there was\u00a0no record of her being licensed anywhere<\/a>. It\u2019s the move every law clerk has been tempted to make, except she also called herself \u201cGeneral Counsel.\u201d Turns out\u00a0she\u00a0took the California bar exam, failed, and called herself a lawyer anyway<\/a>. By the time she was out of the job, her defenders had settled on the argument that\u00a0Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris also failed the bar<\/a>. That defense ignores two things: both of them went back and passed, and neither claimed to be anyone\u2019s general counsel in the meantime. Meanwhile, DHS\u00a0kept airing its $20 million taxpayer-funded Trump ad campaign after a federal judge ordered it pulled<\/a>. DOJ\u2019s own status report explained that agency counsel didn\u2019t see the email with the order until the next morning. Sorry, just seeing this!<\/p>\n

Over in Biglaw, the news was considerably cheerier. Cooley became the latest firm to\u00a0hop aboard the Milbank money train<\/a>, moving all U.S. associates to the new market salary scale. Quinn Emanuel\u00a0scaled back its famous Work From Anywhere policy<\/a>, even so, it\u2019s still the most flexible deal in Biglaw. And Lowenstein Sandler earned some well-deserved applause with a\u00a0new paid leave policy for parents whose newborns face extended NICU stays<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a rough week for the Trump administration\u2019s relationship with credentials\u2026 and email. New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia spent years on cable news billed as a \u201clawyer,\u201d but there was\u00a0no record of her being licensed anywhere. It\u2019s the move every law clerk has been tempted to make, except she also called herself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}