Kathleen Holtz is a lawyer in California who passed the California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 State Bar Examination in 2007 to become the state's youngest lawyer at the age of 18.
Holtz entered the UCLA School of Law at the age of 15 after graduating from Cal State L.A., which she started at the age of 10.
She worked for the law firm TroyGould PC from 2007-2010.

Screen Adaptation

Based on Holtz's story, NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 television is planning to run a series under the name of Barely Legal starring Hilary Duff

Hilary Duff

Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and author. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, she achieved fame playing the title role in the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. She also reprised her role in...

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