Max Raskin is a fellow and adjunct professor of law at New York University School of Law. He is a co-founder of Uris Acquisitions.

It’s easy to laugh at Kim Kardashian, who recently announced that she failed the California bar exam, joining the ranks of celebrities such as Kamala Harris and Jerry Brown. But Kardashian’s failure is not a knock on her — it’s an indictment of the bar, one of the most powerful guilds in America. And for the first time in a century, technological change may finally break that cartel’s grip.