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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kim Kardashian Graduates From 4-Year Law School Apprenticeship
Kim Kardashian is officially one step closer to her dream of being a lawyer. The Skims founder has finished her four-year law school apprenticeship, and she celebrated on Wednesday, May 21, with a surprise graduation party in Beverly Hills, a source tells Us Weekly. Kardashian, 44, thought she was attending a 'regular family brunch' before friends and family surprised her with the celebration. 'They are all excited and proud of her and wanted to surprise her to celebrate this accomplishment,' the insider says. 'Her law mentors are also surprising her, and she has no clue they will be there.' According to the source, Kardashian also passed the multistate professional responsibility exam, which is a 60-question multiple choice test that serves as a prerequisite to the bar exam. Once she passes the bar, she will be allowed to practice law in California. Has Kim Kardashian Passed the Bar Exam? What We Know About the Reality Star's Lawyer Journey Kardashian has been open about her goal to become a lawyer, first dropping the news in an April 2019 interview with Vogue. By then, she was already knee deep in her studies. 'First year of law school you have to cover three subjects: criminal law, torts, and contracts,' she said at the time. 'To me, torts is the most confusing, contracts the most boring, and crim law I can do in my sleep. Took my first test, I got a 100. Super easy for me. The reading is what really gets me. It's so time-consuming. The concepts I grasp in two seconds.' The journey has not been easy. Kardashian finally passed the 'baby bar' exam in 2021 after failing three times. She even took the test once with COVID-19 and a fever. Kim Kardashian Jokes About 'Retiring' From Reality TV to Be a Lawyer Full-Time: I'd Be 'Just as Happy' 'I know my dad would be so proud and he would actually be so shocked to know that this is my path now but he would have been my best study partner,' she said at the time. Her father, Robert Kardashian, was OJ Simpson's attorney during his 1995 trial. He died in 2003 after a battle with esophageal cancer. 'I am told he was notorious for making fun of people who didn't pass on their first attempt like he did, but he would have been my biggest cheerleader!' she added. As for what Kardashian will do if and when she ultimately passes the bar, she has her sights set on criminal justice reform. 'I'm very passionate about criminal justice reform and I want to advocate for those who I feel they were wrongfully convicted,' she told Hong Kong Vogue in April 2022. 'I dream of one day creating a successful law firm.'
CTV News
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Kim Kardashian dons a graduation cap and marches closer to becoming a lawyer
Kim Kardashian waves as she arrives to testify regarding a robbery of millions of dollars in jewels from her Paris hotel room in 2016, in Paris, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard) BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Kim Kardashian is a step closer to following in her father's footsteps and becoming a lawyer. She has completed a legal apprenticeship and is now eligible to take the California bar exam, her representative confirmed Wednesday. The entrepreneur and reality TV star posted an Instagram Story from a small private ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where she smiled as she donned a graduation cap. Jessica Jackson, a lawyer who mentored her in the program, called it 'one of the most inspiring legal journeys we've ever seen.' 'Six years ago, Kim Kardashian walked into this program with nothing but a fierce desire to fight for justice,' Jackson says in a speech in the video. 'No law school lectures, no ivory tower shortcuts, just determination. And a mountain of case law books to read.' California allows people to study under a lawyer or judge as an alternative to law school. Kardashian could become a licensed lawyer if she passes the state's notoriously difficult state bar exam. Jackson said Kardashian spent '18 hours a week, 48 weeks a year for six straight years' on the program. Her late father, Robert Kardashian, was an attorney and counted O.J. Simpson among his clients. Kardashian revealed the milestone roughly a week after she testified in a Paris courtroom about her fear of being killed during a 2016 armed robbery. 'I was certain that was the moment that he was going to rape me,' she told a Paris court May 13 about the ordeal. 'I absolutely did think I was going to die.' Kardashian has in recent years been a criminal justice reform advocate and in 2018 successfully lobbied President Donald Trump to commute the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a grandmother who was serving a life sentence without parole for drug offenses. The Associated Press
