Bar Exams, Pornography

Porn Star Passes Most Difficult Bar Exam In The Country

Fewer than 50 percent of test-takers in California passed the bar exam in July. One of the women who did is a former porn star and current stripper.

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As we mentioned this morning, the California bar exam had one of its lowest pass rates in almost a decade. Just 48.6 percent of test-takers passed the exam, which is quite unfortunate.

The Los Angeles Times notes that the pass rate for July 2014 represents nearly a 7 percentage point dip from July 2013’s pass rate. The last time less than half of bar examinees passed, it was 2005.

There was at least one extremely colorful character who was able to pass the exam, though, and she just so happens to work in the adult entertainment industry. While exam scores were going down, so was she — in more ways than one.

Please note the UPDATE below.

Meet Heather Swift. She’s a 2013 graduate of Western State University College of Law, which is accredited by the American Bar Association. Last year, about 75 percent of first-time takers from the school passed the California bar exam. Swift, who told us that she’s a former porn star who’s currently employed as a stripper (does that count as a J.D. Advantage job?), passed the exam this summer.

Here’s what Swift had to say about her amazing accomplishment:

I took the July 2014 California Bar Exam (my first time taking any bar exam), and I PASSED. No, I did not get time and a half, nor do I have any inside connections to the California State Bar. …

How did I do it? Because unbeknownst to many, women in the adult industry are intelligent and can matriculate through a cutthroat tier 3 law school, and pass the hardest bar exam in history. Unlike Miriam Weeks, I actually did graduate through law school, and I actually did pass the most difficult bar exam on my first attempt.

Perhaps society needs to relinquish stereotypes and overcome their jealousy.

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There are many who would argue that intelligence would automatically rule out attendance at an unranked law school like Western State, even though Swift claims it’s a cutthroat tier 3 institution. But Swift obviously had the smarts to attend a law school that’s just a hop, skip, and a jump away from California’s booming pornography industry in Los Angeles. Someone ought to help Swift find a job in a legal setting. If she can pass the California bar exam when almost no one else can, then she can do anything.

Swift left us with this snarky tidbit at the conclusion of her email:

As for those who snicker at women in the adult industry and who couldn’t pass the exam, stop laughing because a stripper porn star is apparently smarter than you.

Heather Swift is a girl after our own hearts: she’s sassy, classy, and a bit smart-assy.

We wish her the best of luck in her new life as a lawyer. She’s already one step ahead of the game in that she’s already screwed people for a living, and she’ll perform her services even better if a client makes it rain. Any law firm would be lucky to have her.

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UPDATE 12/22/14: Heather Swift decided to wade into the comments on Above the Law to issue some additional commentary on what it was like for a former porn star to go to law school. Here’s what she had to say:

As the real Heather Swift I make this concession: I apologize for the apparent arrogance that my statements may have contained. I was ridiculed, doubted and humiliated during my three years at Western State College of Law (which IS [an] ABA accredited law school). I do not wish to use this post as a means to garner publicity, but rather to dispel the negative and archaic stereotypes that unfortunately pervade legal academia.

One instance of such bullying was when the SBA sponsored a Halloween party (October 2012) in which the SBA conducted a costume contest and in such a contest, the winner dressed up as me in an extremely derogatory fashion. Ultimately the participant won the costume contest. Apparently, people who I had never even spoken with or had any reason to hate me, decided to vote and make fun of me. If this is not a school-sponsored form of bullying, I’m not sure of what is.

As of this point, I realized that a majority of those who voted for me (i.e., spoiled, third-generation lawyers) hated me because I was the “white trash stripper porn star” who threatened to undermine their first-time bar pass rate. Ironically, it was the white trash stripper porn star who was able to pass the most difficult bar exam while the elite future “super lawyers” miserably failed.

You go, girl! Keep breaking down those stereotypes, and you’ll be on the main stage of the legal profession in no time.

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