Katie Zacharia, the newly appointed White House press secretary, faces questions about her legal credentials after telling reporters she passed a Chinese bar exam. Her LinkedIn profile shows she worked at Zhong Lun in Beijing from 2011 to 2013, but working at a Chinese law firm does not mean holding a license to practise there. SCMP and journalist Judd Legum found no record of her in bar licensing lists in New York, DC, California, Texas, Florida or any of the 50 US states, and China's 2011 exam rules required Chinese nationality. Her first briefing lasted about 14 minutes, compared with the roughly 45-minute average of her predecessor Karoline Leavitt, and several White House aides gave the debut negative reviews.
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