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Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles

California teenager who passed bar exam at 17 is now practicing attorney

One middle-age man and an extremely young man face each other in front of the US and the California flags with right hands raised.
Peter Park is sworn in by the Tulare county district attorney, Tim Ward, in Visalia, California, on 5 October 2023. Photograph: Tulare county district attorney

A teenager from California’s Central Valley has become the youngest person to ever pass the state’s bar exam and is now working as a practicing attorney.

The Tulare county district attorney’s office announced this week that Peter Park learned last month at 17 that he had passed the “rigorous exam” on his first attempt in what officials described as a “legal history making moment”. Park has been a law clerk with the office since August after completing law school.

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