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Following her graduation from Harvard, Wurtzel moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and found work as pop music critic for The New Yorker and New York Magazine.
In the early 2000s, she applied to Yale Law School and was accepted despite the fact that "… Her combined LSAT score of 160 was, as she put it, 'adequately bad' … 'Suffice it to say I was admitted for other reasons,' Ms. Wurtzel said. 'My books, my accomplishments.'…" She received her J.D. in 2008, but failed the New York bar exam the first time she took it. Wurtzel sparked controversy in the legal community by holding herself out as a lawyer in interviews, even though she was not licensed to practice law in any jurisdiction at the time. However, Wurtzel passed the February 2010 New York State bar exam, and was employed at Boies, Schiller & Flexner in New York City for some time. As of June 2012, she is no longer listed as an attorney with that firm. In July 2010, she wrote a proposal in the Brennan Law Center blog for abolishing bar exams.
She writes on a regular basis for The Wall Street Journal.
In 2009 Wurtzel published an article in Elle magazine about societal pressures related to aging.
Wurtzel had announced a forthcoming book entitled Creatocracy; originally scheduled for release in 2011, as of mid-2012 it had not yet been published. It is based on the thesis she wrote about intellectual property law upon graduation from Yale Law school.
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